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The video art piece aims to polarize the following questions:

  • Human × Mechanical

  • Formation × Form

  • Process × Product

  • Sound external to the image × Sound inherent to the image

  • Minimalism (repetition) × Historical Time (epilogue)

  • Formal experimentation with video effects × Narrative

  • Musical parallelism × Visual parallelism

References

  • Informal Abstraction in painting from the 1940s and 1950s

  • Expressionism

  • Minimalism

  • Dance (choreography)

  • Motherhood

  • John Cage (musical parallelism)

  • Kodo (percussion)

Ideas

“A visual musculature of the video medium.”

“To see things is to forget their names.”
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“Cardioplastic.”

“A choreography of lights.”

“A strongly pictorial work.”

“Human figuration suggested.”

“The work narrates itself.”

The mixing of the music “She Is Asleep” and “Music for Four” by John Cage forms a musical monolith, which gives voice to the abstractions.

“A musical monolith occurs when the music is continuous, without intervals for silence.”

“The non-forms gradually transform into organisms, water, body, and abyss, suggesting abstract events that gain a story through the editing process. These abstractions materialize intimate feelings, where the viewer encounters the abyss that the body itself can reveal.”

“In the epilogue, the excerpt from ‘Monochrome’ by the percussion ensemble Kodo introduces a moment of union. Until then, images and music move in parallel throughout the work. Here they coincide, appearing to form shape and body—yet still remaining abstract.”

Synopsis

(Title of the work), with a duration of “X” minutes, seeks to polarize key questions of the contemporary world, among them: the human versus the mechanical; repetition versus difference; the factual and its subjective projections.

It is an overtly abstract and formalist experience (figures tend toward dissolution or a ghost-like presence), questioning the video medium itself and its effects.

From visual arts—such as Informal Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, and expressionist figuration—to music—such as dodecaphony and minimalism—the work also reflects tensions between the absence of narrative and the presence of an epilogue, sensuality and physicality, psychological time and historical duration.

Credits

Author: Lola Lustosa
Concept: Lola Lustosa
Photography: Lola Lustosa
Camera: Lola Lustosa
Music: Lola Lustosa
Editing: Sofia Karan
Collaboration: Sofia Karan

Music

  • She Is Asleep — John Cage

  • Music for Four — John Cage

  • Monochrome — Kodo

Acknowledgements

  • Noboyki Osaka

  • Marcio Tinoco

  • Christian Gaul

  • Helena Lustosa

  • David Cury

  • Claudio Montagna

  • Miguel Rio Branco

  • Cristina Santa Maria

  • Gilberto Loureiro