With performances that challenge the traditional concepts of the modality, Videobrasil continues this year with what has become a permanent feature: stimulus to artists who are researching hybrids resulting from the combination and dialogue between image, movement, music, dance, the body itself and scenic space. In this edition, Alexandre da Cunha, Eder Santos, Luiz Duva and Marcello Mercado – the latter prize winner at 12th Videobrasil – are representatives of this live form of expression in constant transformation. The programme, varied and of various approaches, advances the Festival’s idea of promoting a kind of permanent thinking laboratory.
Luiz Duva will present a combination of music and image, with the participation of DJs.
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Curator's text 2001
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 Videobrasil, 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.
Curator's text
"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 Videobrasil, 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": de 19 a 23 de setembro de 2001, p. 206-207, São Paulo, SP, 2001.