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Categories: Video
Keywords: Body | Perception | Time
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
Felipe Dulzaides
«On the Ball»
The physical confrontation with one’s own image in video, from the very beginning a central motive of video art, finds a renewed following among the younger generation of video artist of the 1990s. Unedited and staged without digital processing, «On the Ball» presents the visibility of the face as a function of breathing. At the same time, breathing heavily on the camera’s lens plays on the function of the video tape, its reference to time. In this instance, allowing something to become visible also proves itself to be a dialectic process of obscuring and making clear. Simultaneously, the confrontation with the bodily processes does without drama and ideology of any kind. The body is simply the given.
RF
