The Telepathic Place: by David Blair … last 2 days, with live
choreography by Karine Saporta on Sept 8th
For the disapearance of my installation at the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Antwerp, the noted choreographer Karine Saporta has agreed to
live choreograph for the camera, with a single dancing telepathic
movietalker, on Sunday Sept 8th, and during the disassembly of the
exhibition by the technical staff on Monday Sept 9th. A longer
description of Ms. Saporta's work follows below.
The Telepathic Place opened on June 7th, 2013, and closes at the very
end of the day on Sept 8th. Spread across 5 rooms, the installation
contains 22 1 hour video channels, the contents of the Vrielynck
collection of pre-cinema and cinema material, 100 telepathic paintings,
and many residual thoughts, left by the people in the process of
forgetting. This installation serves as a waystation on a project that I
have worked on the last 20 years, and as a sequel to my first feature
film, Wax or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees… which was
projected in many places at many times, and for some reason was the
first film on the internet, back then. Wax was set in New Mexico and
Iraq. The Lost Tribes is set in Manchuria, and of course in the Spanish
city of Antwerp, an important segment of the Flemish Empire.
A complete, preliminary documentation of the 5 rooms, and all 22 video
channels, are available at:
http://telepathic-movie.org or at
https://vimeo.com/channels/thetelepathicplace
Karine Saporta is the author of more than 30 significant choreographic
spectacles over an extremely distinguished career. You may know her as
the choreographer of Peter Greenaway's "Prospero's Books"… but she has
also served as artistic director for dance at the Avignon Festival, as
director of the Centre Choreographique National in Caen, and of course
as the director of her own long term dance company. The company is based
in a mobile theatre, originally a palais de glace from Flanders, which
was installed for 3 years in front of the Bibliotheque Francois
Mitterand in Paris.
Here following is the original announcement I sent out for the opening
the exhibition, which includes new information, and as you might expect
for a description of a 4-d movie, some amount of repetition:
"On the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, MuHKA, is a
banner for a 4-dimensional movie: "The Telepathic Place: from the Making
of The Telepathic Motion Picture of THE LOST TRIBES. This movie takes
place in 5 rooms, and combines 22 screens, each with an hour of video,
placed within an active pre- and post-cinema film studio, where are in
play various useful movie objects such as Magic Lanterns, the famous
Lumiere Cinematographe #12, Manchurian Film Projectors imported from
Germany, and various instruments used by narrators and directors of the
Telepathic Cinema…. Including a 15 meter static moving panorama, 75
telepathic paintings, and other amusements associated with the
production of the silent sound film. Here the audience is told and makes
the movie at the same time, while wandering in space for 10 minutes or
two hours… one flexible advantage of a 4 dimensional presentation.
If your geography, time, and interest will permit you, then I would to
invite you to visit the exhibiton of this film, which is playing all
summer [June 7 until Sept 8 2013], 6 days a week, indoors, during
daylight hours.
This exhibition is a project by David Blair, curated by Edwin Carels
(KASK/HoGent), and made in cooperation with MuHKA, using the Museum's
Vrielynck collection of historical cinema apparatus, which the fortunate
Mr. Vrielynck collected during his life as a Notary, and now, after that
life, is a cultural property located in the city of Antwerp.
If you have any questions or requests, please feel free to contact me
[David Blair] directly via email: [email protected] .
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