Apnea. Territorio Mar-íntimo¨ is a work pursuing, by contrast narrative, a reflection on the relationship between identity and migration. Through this piece, I search in the story an immersion towards intimacy. The idea is to set an identitary cartography connecting experience with bureaucratic context and political territories.
To my family…
DETAILS
Name of the work: Apnea Territorio Mar-íntimo
Author: Sara Malinarich
Year of creation: 2008
Technique: Interactive Video Installation
URL
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SINOPSIS
Apnea. Territorio Mar-íntimo is an installation consisting of a video projection and seven volumetric objects formed by a base and a telephone made of plaster. Each object, has an audio device, by which it can be listen the voice of people narrating small fragments taken from diaries written by the creator of Apnea, between 1985 and 1995. These are friends and family, that through their voices outline the identity of the writer of the diaries.
The video projection shows the artist in a beach, telling her personal details according to her legal/administrative situation as an immigrant. The idea is to confront two kinds of narration simultaneously about the same person. One of them focusing on the bureaucracy and the other on memory and identity tell by others.
This piece, made in 2008, is built in South America, specifically in Chile, country of birth of the creator of Apnea and where she travels to find the elements alive and documents that form this work.
EXHIBITIONS
2008 Digital Media 1.0 Festival. La NaU. University of Valencia, Spain
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2008 2º versión of Microfestival of Cuenca city, Human error. Spain
THANKS
Ana María Malinarich, Angélica Malinarich, Erica Escalona, Paulina Delgado, Patricio Malinarich, Pedro Sánchez, Teresa Valdebenito, Maren Pimstein, Jasna Tomasevic, Matilde Aguero, Manuel Terán, Ana Mas Bravo, Carmen García, Celia Guillén, Eduardo Marco, Ignacio Ave, José Carlos Carretón. Camila Foncilla y Jesús Muñoz.
COLLABORATORS
ENMARCO || Diseño Hispano || K-phé Hispano
Sara looks for Sara
This teleshared action makes reference to the relationship between memory and identity. In an evocative way, this work talks about personal memories; the ones that are shared and pass through the ones around us.
This piece proposes the existence of the individual in its context and its situation of belonging, as long as the ones around it can also account for the truthfulness of the memories and merits that the subject says are his.
Under the subject Migraciones para un sueño, this work reflects upon what gets lost of a person when it migrates and how, through memory, it looks itself in the middle of the anonymity, sometimes impotent.
This teleshared action could be considered an action-installation where the artist, Sara Malinarich, is present “inside” a computer screen, which is at the same time seated in a rocket chair. Behind the rocket chair, there is a projection where a video made by Vicente Pastor and Ernesto García can be seen. This video is being send at that moment via Internet through a videoconference system. The video shows a route made in one day of a life and works as a context to articulate the memories and wonderings that Sara gives to things and people that show in the video.
Sara is looking for herself in another, in the route of her action partners. The artist- also an emigrant in Spain- looks for herself, for the times she couldn’t be sure of her past; the one that doesn’t exist in the memory of the ones surrounding her at the moment. Alienated, Sara is looking for Sara, as if it was someone else.
URL
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EXHIBITIONS
2006 INTACT FESTIVAL [00]. Sala café Hispano (Cuenca, Spain) + Studio Petahertz (Paris, France) + Materiaviva.net (Asturias, Spain)
PRESS
OBSERVATION:
After several experiences acquired in the use of sensors of different nature, the creators of this piece we have observed that the optic mice of the computer are sensitive to diverse sources of light, such as, solar, laser, infrared, electric, etc. This sensibility of the reader of the mouse is translated in spasmodic movements of the cursor, visible on the screen; this thanks to that any form of light that can cross the field of the own light of the reader of the mouse, is capable of altering the behavior of the cursor. Light against light, doing that an optic mouse can function like a sensor of light.
On this behavior and the reflection occurred of it is based this work: A multimedia installation where is possible to dispense with the human interface (direct handling) since this piece functions articulated by the light, in this case, solar.
As we know, the leader of the mouse is the indicator and coach of objects on the screen of a computer. They based on this form so relative to work with the computers, we have developed a formally artistic, specific programming, that is capable of unchaining behaviors such as sound, images as well as to give orders to an operating system only with the movement of the cursor (way roll-over) to represent and to develop multiple processes, without requiring that a person he manipulate he plots it.
This project, therefore, is a first stadium of artificial life. Project presented in the Festival of Art and Science, Symbiosis, Zone of Contact (2005).
INSTALLATION-INTERFACE
The work has taken as the protagonist a cybernetic plant; a composed hybrid for fifty mice of done computer of plaster of Paris, accompanied by other three optic mice connected to so many more computers.
Each optic mouse is arranged toward the sun, on a base, its optical light looks to the sun. This crossing of lights does that the optical light react like a scanner and in this way "reading" to the sun, the cursor of the mouse espresso movements of unforeseeable paths, the ones that can be visualized on the screens of their respective computers. At the same time, each computer possesses a program created for this work. Said program, of audiovisual character", permits that the movements of the cursors unchain a series of behaviors and orders on a system that translates them in sonorous and graphic elements.
Photo. without. thesis is a work based on a simple technological language and accessible, without I engage, is structured to put in evidence the complex processes in relation to the natural life and the machines; a first stadium of artificial life where the spectators are found set against a computer that carries out processes without the human intervention.
REFLECTION: The relation of the man and the machine disappears in this installation. In this work, the machine been nourished of the nature, capturing it and transforming it. But in what other data are transformed the information that enters for the drives of the nature? It would be able to feel the nature or plots it nostalgia of the artist? More than one nature exists? This installation hybridizes plant us the life in relation to the new technologies, man postmoderno and the nature.
AUTHORS
Sara Malinarich
Manuel Terán
URL
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PRENSA
http://www.lne.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pIdNoticia=316988&pIdSeccion=46&pNumEjemplar=995
http://www.ajimez.com/exposici.on/Simbiosis.htm
http://www.escaner.cl/escaner76/enlaces.html
http://www.heterogenesis.com/Informacion/Simbiosis/Symbiosis.htm
EXHIBITION
Simbiosis Festival Internacional . Art and Cience. Luarca 2005. Asturias, Spain.
"Bio-emulsion" is a composed multimedia installation by a projector of transparencies, two computers, a camera web, fifty mice of plaster of Paris, wine and oil.
A projection on the wall shows us in alive two liquids met in a container of crystal: Came and oil (articles of production of the town of High Rooms). By means of a system of leak, both substances go designing a mixed body with cell aspect.
By the room and on the same wall, fifty mice of plaster of Paris surround the projection trying that the assembly of the composition possess the aspect of an ovum in process of fertilization.
To a side of the space expositivo, a camera web connected to a monitor captures real-time to the assistant spectators to the sample. Said capture is produces by middle of an ascii codification program that tranforma the bodies of the spectators in characters of text. In this way, the spectator intervenes in the work and he is he splits active a representation that tries to symbolize in a graphic way and interactive a parallel between the genetic base of the life and the company of High Rooms (Huesca) as generators of life through the production of wine and oil.
Bio-emulsion is not only a metaphor of a vital process but also an intention of union of two concepts and worlds: potentiality and reality, love and tecnofilia, encounter and separation, artist and environment, trying to create thus a symbiotic union that articulate this proposal of work.
DETAILS
BIO-EMULSIÓN (Multimedia installation)
Authors: Sara Malinarichand Manuel Terán
Sound: Karl-Otto Von Oertzen
Place: Festival, Estoesloquehay. Salas Altas, Huesca
www.estoesloquehay.com
URL
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EXHIBICIÓN
2007 Rural Festival Estoesloquehay. Salas Altas, Huesca. Spain
PRESS
http://www.rtve.es/rne/r3/pr/fluido/archiv/20050805.htm (simbiosis: foto.sin.tesis)
http://www.lne.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pIdNoticia=316988&pIdSeccion=46&pNumEjemplar=995
http://www.ajimez.com/criticas/detalle.php?id=285 (simbiosis: foto.sin.tesis)
http://www.lne.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pNumEjemplar=991&pIdSeccion=46&pIdNoticia=315913
http://www.lne.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pNumEjemplar=984&pIdSeccion=46&pIdNoticia=313878
http://www.lne.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pNumEjemplar=995&pIdSeccion=46&pIdNoticia=316987
http://www.lne.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pNumEjemplar=994&pIdSeccion=46&pIdNoticia=316701
http://blogs.elcomerciodigital.com/index.php/miguelestebantorreblanca/2005/08/26/tiempo_de_proyectos
