A WORLD WITHOUT WORLD
Text by Vicente Pastor and Ernesto García (Asturias)
Wooden columns appear on image, beginning of a house in construction, symbol of home and settling in a place, any place. The house, during the action, it is being built beam by beam. Once built, a strong gale wiped out the place, taking with it the house and the illusion.
Culture and fake, reality and virtuality, daily life and fiction.
Modifier of spaces, of time and distances… Reality has become a naked and vulnerable simulation of itself.
IRONIK
Sara Malinarich (Cuenca)
Dress as an executive, the artist is ready to work in an office desk, however, inside her briefcase; there are only sheets to iron. These sheets are her resume and while the artist iron them, from Asturias, the artist Vicente Pastor makes the action of the destruction of an installation symbolizing home.
This action is a critique to the situation of many emigrants, which even though professionally prepared, do not find a job in the field they studied. In the case of the women, judgment goes further, alluding to the inequality and machismo in working activities.
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EXHIBITIONS
2006 INTACT FESTIVAL [00]. Sala café Hispano (Cuenca, España) + Studio Petahertz (Paris, Francia) + Materiaviva.net (Asturias, España)
PRENSA
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.
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EXHIBITIONS
2006 INTACT FESTIVAL [00]. Sala café Hispano (Cuenca, Spain) + Studio Petahertz (Paris, France) + Materiaviva.net (Asturias, Spain)
PRESS
Imagine various scenarios, a body that could travel through the cables of the net across France and Spain, another one through Spain and France…
Any change you say! However, one is certainly there, in front of your eyes, living. Imagine that these bodies find each other in a twist of the connection, transforming themselves, constructing themselves, modeling themselves… Like in a merging of these scenarios to create in each place a dance of images and sounds.
ASTURIAS [Materia viva atelier ] + PARIS [Maison Populaire]
Video telesharing. 31 de Marzo 2007. 22:00hrs
HEART ATTACK (SPAIN)
PARTICIPANTS
Alexandre Berthier (Paris)
Ernesto García (Asturias)
Sara Malinarich (Asturias)
Vicente Pastor (Asturias)
Karl-Otto von Oertzen (Paris)
Manuel Terán (Asturias)
Tomeo Verges (Paris)
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EXHIBITIONS
PRESS
http://www.ecrans.fr/Net-Act-pour-un-Internet-d-echange.html
RE Make UP is an installation that culminates in action. This video show us a sequence of how a face makes up virtually, projecting to another people the image that her desired to transmit, but at the same time, forgetting small traces of what she try to conceal. An image reconstructed that the artist had given herself to go out and to be contemplated.
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The projected face on a wall becomes invisible backup that is painted through a peripheral element -the light of the optic mouse- performing the shape of the appearance.
Remembering us to G. B. Shaw, the artist uses the mirror to see her face and the art to see her soul.
Making up represents the impulse of hiding s Keeling. A wound in the soul, a chance to hide what inevitable can be felt through the reveling eyes. The wishing of self-convincement that circumstances around can change if it can be seen in any other way. It not about looking for a make up that improve her appearance, just a touch that gives color to life and a escape forward, a way of going out of the reality where she is in that moment.
The procedure applied in this artwork would be more linked to the performance than to the processes of manipulation of the digital image. Nevertheless, the employed elements for their execution are used habitually in the digital creation.
In this piece the artist decided not to interfere in the noises that are produced during the capture of the data that is transferred and registered digitally.
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EXHIBITIONS
2006 Play Festival. Festival de Video de Buenos Aires, Junín. Argentina. Curator: Silvio De Gracia.
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2005 LIMES FESTIVAL. Lund, Sweden. Curator: Ximena Narea
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2005 WITHOUT BORDER FESTIVAL. AT Ayers Island en Orono, EEUU
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2005 INTERFERENCIAS, ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DE ACCIÓN. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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2005 FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE PERFORMANCE "Perfomagia03", Centro de Arte EX TERESA. Ciudad de México D.F. México
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2005 Colectivo de artistas Perro Rabioso. Directora: Tamara Cubas, contando con el apoyo de la Fundación Príncipe Claus. Montevideo, Uruguay.
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2005 De igual modo que en Montevideo, 1×1 fue producido junto a artistas corobeses pertenecientes al colectivo Proyecto Amarillo. Córdoba, Argentina.
