Csenge Kolozsvári
Untitled (Speculative Proposition)
January 6–February 14, 2014
Vernissage January 9, 5 à 7
(Black Box)
“A thing’s place is no longer anything but a point in its movement, just as the stability of a thing is only its movement indefinitely slowed down.”
(Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias)
Csenge Kolozsvári
Untitled (Speculative Proposition) is a new, sculptural video installation inspired by, and unfolding as a parallel proposition to, a Iive performance and sound installation called NONLINEAR, NON ARTICULATED, where I balance on a tightrope. In this previous work, the resonance in the tight rope created by the balancing movement is recorded through contact microphones attached to the rope, is processed and accumulated, and projected back to the space live. This creates a continuous co-composition of all factors: the moving performer and spectator, the resonating sounds, and the increasing intensities created by these activities inhabiting the space in the duration of the performance.
As the container of an event, space carries the potential of maintaining experience. But if we are able to think about place not as a fixed point, but as a nodal point of process, as Foucault suggests - a field for alternative decisions /redirection – then we open up the possibility for the space to be inthe constant flux of movement and to fulfill different roles in the experience. Within the framework of this project, I take a physical space of a live performance and look at it from a new perspective, while exploring the limits of sound, video projection and tactility in delivering and transforming experience.
Statement
The rhythm of my thought is moving my body. I sound like my moving thinking.
In my artistic practice, I examine the embodied relationship between thought, movement and sound through the process of change – a transformation by repetition. I am inspired by repetition not as the same thing many times, but as a new start over and over again. In this sense, learning is not an increase in knowledge but an accumulation of layers of the becoming experience.
I am interested in investigating the body’s potential as a membrane for being active between thought, movement and sound; a translucent and permeable substance that constantly resonates both with the conceiving forces within and the constantly changing surrounding.
Creating synesthethic, multisensory pieces, I use sound, video, sculpture, light and human presence to activate complex situations and enable the observer to experience the work directly through perception before it gets translated to language.
