Fred
Périé |
MUR
Generative cideo (2005-06) Variable dimensions Approximate duration : 6 loops of 4 cycles 7 mn each Red liquid
drips slowly from a wall in vague, winding tracks. The
process goes on until the wall's surface is almost
entirely covered. Then, in a second phase, the drops
become translucent, erasing the red. Still on a random
trajectory, they do not entirely clean the wall. The red
returns, but this time the dripping seems not to leave
any trace in some places. Little by little, as if
revealed by color, signs appear which are understood to
be crossed-out handwriting. Then the translucent drops
appear once more and the cycle starts again, revealing a
new page of the manuscript. The process is accompanied
by generative music, which mixes piano notes and speech
fragments, using the same formulas as the ones
engendering the drops' trajectory. This produces
variations that all differ from what might initially be
identified as a unique shape.
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There is something
incessant that wakes me up, indecent, I don't know,
this is brutal ! Something that oozes from crack
in an old gray and dirty wall, which seems to have
staid there bearing all the traces of organized
horrors. Or would it simply be the impression of
suddenly being aware of what I am not and that I would
like to be, the echo of some shameful part... We then
could be some kind of wall.
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