Live video practice gives the viewer the opportunity to see and experience an imaginary space and time, thus tracing and constructing a story through seduction and identification. When producing a physical image that is being manifested in the social space and real time, the visual and sound image is created as a result of personal and collective symbolisation. Let us then step into a live video picture, and embark on a voyage to face technical and optical devices, and other spectators. The image is ephemeral, it is simultaneously presenting itself and disappearing. The space is fragmented, the points of view diverse. Our perception is fragmented, multiplied and intermitted. The structure is open and the form untangled, there is a lot of ambiguity and ambivalence, the unconscious is at work and the artwork hints at topics outside of the aesthetic field, e.g. society or the position of an individual or the artist. This constellation addresses the viewers directly, it includes and activates them. Where this complexity is eliminated, the idea is manifested clearer, but it becomes too scarce. BB

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Through the perspective of technology I am going to attempt to catch the narration, woven from segments i.e. frames, plans, scenes, sequences, gradients, delays, turns, layering and perforations… I am going to follow the decisions, intentions, procedures and effects that correlate to technical aspects and artistic expressions. Relationship/tension between representation and narrative triggers a distance which is connected and disconnected at the same time. It still has to do with diegetic experience but it is intermittent. The image and sound is an illusion, a network of abjects and affections, of surfaces and incrustations, bookmarks and processes, associations and references… At the same time, the network is also a set of holes tied together with line. As the process of construction is being charged, the system of signs and meanings is being formed; while we are in the position of perceiving and analyzing. Yet consider what we don’t catch: there is always far more of that. BB

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