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Presentation text 19/09/2001
Live Images
Live Images is the meeting of images and sounds, the construction of new meanings emerging from this encounter and sensorial provocation. Created by Luiz Duva, the audio-visual presentation gives continuity to an already long research with the image by the artist, involving considerations on its potentiality, on the possibility of transforming it starting from the interaction with music, subverting the initial message. In Live Images, what is seen are not literal narratives, but meaning remade: as in previous works, techniques such as scratch and speed change transform previously shot material. For Duva, more important than the building of conventional narratives are the images, which speak for themselves. An artist who has worked with documentaries and video art, as well as fiction and video installations, Duva explores in his performances the creation of sensorial environments. In Live Images, the pre-recorded images – divided in themes that can be scenes, sensations and/or movements involving characters – loaded by a computer, are edited to the rhythm of the music. “Long repetition phrases are formed – be it by the scratches or by the different paces of the video – that reveal new relationships now between the images, now between the frames of a single image. The sound, which serves as a base to the images, in the same way fuses pre-recorded basis with equipment manipulated live”, says Luiz Duva. In the new performance to be presented at 13th Videobasil, the manipulated images gain colours and textures recalling paintings. In Live Images, the combination of sound and image should not be observed in a still way. The work, after all, was thought for a night performance, in a place where people would be dancing, participating in the sensorial environment. Image and sound add to produce a third element.
ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL, " 13º Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica Videobrasil" [13th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival]:19 to 23 September 2001, pp. 206-207, São Paulo, SP, 2001.