Intimations by Cinzia Cremona
20th Nov – 2nd Dec 2014
Thurs - Sat, 12 - 6pm (or by appointment)
http://www.arebyte.com/int/4587204778
https://www.facebook.com/events/341880532661632
Cinzia Cremona
20th November – 2nd December 2014
Come in, play, think ...
Intimations includes five videoperformances produced between 2007 and 2013:
1. Regardless (2007) experiments with visual strategies to suggest that
the screen is permeable. 2. The Other Person (2010) explores intimacy,
trust and zones of proximity. 3. Wish You Were Here (2011) suggests and
mocks idealised conviviality, and plays with ideas of liveness. 4. Are
You Talking to Me? (2010) denies relationality by focusing on a dialogue
internal to the performer. 5. Before You Now (2013) explores the desire
for authenticity and unmediated relationality.Th ese videoperformances
address you directly and ask personal and self-reflective questions. It
is on you, the viewer, that the significance of Intimations relies. The
exhibition will be fulfilled if you accept the invitation to answer my
enquires – otherwise they are simply monologues to camera – screen
mediated conversations with an imagined other.
There are no technical theatrics, and the DIY aesthetic makes your
presence feel more real. Dichotomies such as geographical distance and
visual closeness, and relational presence and physical absence arise. I
share with you a private moment in which I expose my feelings and
thoughts. In addition, I unceasingly try to start an impossible dialogue
with you, which triggers feelings of frustration on both sides of the
screen. The screen is familiar to us and it is palpable in our daily
life where most of our communication is now screen-based. We live in a
networked society of hyper- communication, where the screen become s
invisible but, at the same time, shapes our identities. Through the
Internet and within mass communications systems we assemble data
according to our desires and we construct our personalised hypertext.
Consequently, there is a fragmentation of our sense of self and
understanding since I have my text and you have yours.
I address the camera in order to evoke an ideal interlocutor who
activates a scene of address with me and initiates a chain of relays. We
mobilise interpellation, the gaze, awareness and performativity to
produce mediated relationality and invite reflection. These
videoperformances explore the mechanisms and strategies of interfacing
performer, video camera and screen to produce and mediate performative
relationality in videoperformance. As a result, relationality emerges as
fundamental to the construction of subjectivity.
By performing in my own work, I deploy my subjectivity as a tool to
offer and experiment with the relational dynamics of performance, of the
mediation of video, of the specific qualities of the screen and of the
interplay of subjectivity and relationality. The elements of
subjectivity that emerge in my videoperformances are part of my personal
history, and are selected and utilised to activate relational offers and
strategies. I confront the question of gendered subjectivity and
representation directly, and acknowledge the legacy of artists and
thinkers who have focused on the politics of representation of the
female body (Martha Rosler, Hannah Wilke, Annie Abrahams and Peggy Phelan).
However, these videoperformances aim to integrate and transcend the
direct questioning of representation towards the activation of
performative relationality productive of moments of reflection.
Similarly, they resonate with the theories and discourses of
interpellation, the gaze, performativity and their ethics. In other
words, I play with you in a way that transforms us both. I become with
you, we construc t ways of being and theories on ways of beings. What
will you do with this experience? Where will you take it?
Cinzia Cremona is an artist and researcher. Her videoperformances
focusing on relationships and intimate interaction form an original body
of work that extends into networked practice and on-line performance.
She is course leader of the MA contemporary Art and Professional
Practice and for the MA Art, Design and the Book at the Colchester
School of Art.
Link: http://www.arebyte.com/int/4587204778
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