RESIDENCY NO. 02
THE BEGINNING.
Anastasia Dumitrescu (Transylvania/RO), Toni Dimitrov (Skopje/MK), Samantha E. Harvey (London/UK) and Lu Sisi (London/UK, orig. CN-NM) started their creative process in May 2021.
In the first month, individual works and impulses go directly deep through a platform on which a first collection is created.
Thoughts, Fragments, Inspirations
DISPARATE DATA
… the invention of paths through the media landscape- semionauts who produce original pathways through already existing signs and data. The semionaut imagines the links, the relations between disparate data.
SHIFTING CARTOGRAPHY
… actively inhabit data - constantly reshuffle the information obtained, inventing paths that can be reproduced again - a labyrinth of data, a shifting cartography
PHYSICAL LANDSCAPES
… the recycling of sounds, images and forms implies incessant navigation with the meanderings of cultural history, navigation which itself becomes the subject of artistic practice / concepts of pathways, meanderings, navigation that are present and relate with the concept of landscape, of ways of inhabiting physical landscapes
About language related to our experiment with key words and spoken words... gesture of speaking, rhythm and texture of the words.
We do not, as children, first enter into language by consciously studying the formalities of syntax and grammar or by memorizing the dictionary definitions of words, but rather by actively making sounds—by crying in pain and laughing in joy, by squealing and babbling and playfully mimicking the surrounding soundscape, gradually entering through such mimicry into the specific melodies of the local language, our resonant bodies slowly coming to echo the inflections and accents common to our locale and community.
We thus learn our native language not mentally but bodily. We appropriate new words and phrases first through their expressive tonality and texture, through the way they feel in the mouth or roll off the tongue, and it is this direct, felt significance—the taste of a word or phrase, the way it influences or modulates the body—that provides the fertile, polyvalent source for all the more refined and rarefied meanings which that term may come to have for us.
Perception, this ongoing reciprocity, is the very soil and support of that more conscious exchange we call language.
Language as a profoundly carnal phenomenon, rooted in our sensorial experience of each other and of the world.
A vocal gesticulation wherein the meaning is inseparable from the sound, the shape, and the rhythm of the words.
The Body as Expression, and Speech / the gestural genesis of language, the way that communicative meaning is first incarnate in the gestures by which the body spontaneously expresses feelings and responds to changes in its environment.
Linguistic meaning is not some ideal and bodiless essence that we arbitrarily assign to a physical sound or word and then toss out into the “external” world. Rather, meaning sprouts in the very depths of the sensory world, in the heat of meeting, encounter, participation.
Tuning our animal senses to the sensible terrain: blending our skin with the rain-rippled surface of rivers, mingling our ears with the thunder and the thrumming of frogs, and our eyes with the molten sky. Feeling the polyrhythmic pulse of this place—this huge windswept body of water and stone. This vexed being in whose flesh we’re entangled. Becoming earth. Becoming animal. Becoming, in this manner, fully human.”
Excerpt From: David Abram. »Becoming Animal«
Every tree is a knot, and the characteristic feature of all knots is that their constitutive threads are joined not end to end but in the middle, with trailing ends that go in search of other threads to bind with. Life is a meshwork. / connection between our own threads and that of others
»Though we still tend to think of ourselves as coherent beings and believe that our awareness is a continuous mental state, we are constantly evolving. We shift from one percept or thought to the next, from actuality to dream, association to deduction and recollection to imagination. Human consciousness is an ever changing cut-up of mental fragments held together by a fluctuating sense of self.«
Quote from Radical cut-up by Lukas Feireiss
Outcome PHASE 1
BREATHING ENTITY
A glimpse into the collaboration between artists Samantha E Harvey, Anastasia Dumitrescu, Toni Dimitrov and Lu Sisi made during the first phase of the Artists @ Home residency. The outcome is a short audio visual cut-up; a portal, a generator of ideas and concepts they envisage to develop and expand.
A soundscape of fragments from each one’s search and approach alongside a juxtaposing combination of video art, photography, sonic explorations and augmented reality. Giving birth to a breathing entity of interconnected elements and hybrid narratives that allow the artists to remix and reinterpret their own works.
By creating new paths between their diverse approaches and already existing data from the media landscape, the artists envision themselves as semionauts, who navigate, imagine and reproduce new links, relations and ways of inhabiting the physical and the virtual landscape.
PHASE 2
Textures, surfaces and layers merging with the environment. Threads, paths, cords and lines of connection and communication. Lines to bind with, and the new life that issues from them. pulses and flows. Language. Several voices, layered in correspondence. Spoken sounds. their direct bodily expressive potency, rooted in our sensorial experience of each other and of the world. Interstices of human life. a rhythmic alternation and mutual shaping. A resonant and fluid reality in which nothing is ever the same from one moment to the next. An expressive, gesturing landscape, a world that speaks.
Some Inspiration
Perception, this ongoing reciprocity, is the very soil and support of that more conscious exchange we call language.
Language as a profoundly carnal phenomenon, rooted in our sensorial experience of each other and of the world.
“The Body as Expression, and Speech / the gestural genesis of language, the way that communicative meaning is first incarnate in the gestures by which the body spontaneously expresses feelings and responds to changes in its environment.
A vocal gesticulation wherein the meaning is inseparable from the sound, the shape, and the rhythm of the words.
Linguistic meaning is not some ideal and bodiless essence that we arbitrarily assign to a physical sound or word and then toss out into the “external” world. Rather, meaning sprouts in the very depths of the sensory world, in the heat of meeting, encounter, participation.
Into the specific melodies of the local language, our resonant bodies slowly coming to echo the inflections and accents common to our locale and community.
We thus learn our native language not mentally but bodily. We appropriate new words and phrases first through their expressive tonality and texture, through the way they feel in the mouth or roll off the tongue, and it is this direct, felt significance—the taste of a word or phrase, the way it influences or modulates the body—that provides the fertile, polyvalent source for all the more refined and rarefied meanings which that term may come to have for us. / The spell of the sensuous by David Abraam
SELECTED KEYWORDS
生 grow
万象 all
Equilibrium
Fused
Stratum
Perception
Frequency
OUTCOME PHASE 2
INTERSTICES
Textures, surfaces and layers merging with the environment. Threads, paths, cords and lines of connection and communication. Lines to bind with, and the new life that issues from them. pulses and flows. Language. Several voices, layered in correspondence. Spoken sounds. their direct bodily expressive potency, rooted in our sensorial experience of each other and of the world. Interstices of human life. a rhythmic alternation and mutual shaping. A resonant and fluid reality in which nothing is ever the same from one moment to the next. An expressive, gesturing landscape, a world that speaks.
FINAL PHASE/OUTCOME
Deadline as Timeline:
The process is the outcome and art, a possible tool for communication between artists.
The installation
… presents alongside the actual works ( videos) all the extra materials and research that went into our process that enabled and shaped our communication as a creative process. Given the fact that our collaboration had an important social character, it will be a nice addition to show to the audience the unfolding of the process. By the means of a timeline or a map that shows also the energies at play, the ups and downs and our constant attempt to calibrate us and our different approaches. A multimedia installation that guides the viewer through our process and mirrors the methodology we used - a constant navigation between our different cultural backgrounds, artistic approaches and created works. I envision this installation as being modular so that new pathways and narratives could surface. Combining a structured approach in which we expose the steps we made and the way the concept was created with a more free form approach in which we play with the materials - transparency, overlaying, reassembly of existing materials, deconstruction.
