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ORKA 1997 |
| A PROJECTED
VIDEO ENVIRONMENT BY STEINA |
STEINA: “My background is
in music. For me, it is the sound that leads me
into the image. Every image has its own sound
and in it I attempt to capture something flowing
and living. I apply the same principle to art
as to playing the violin: with the same attitude
of continuous practice, the same concept of composition.
“Since my art schooling was in music,
I do not think of images as stills, but always
as motion. My video images primarily hinge upon
an undefined sense of time with no earth gravity.
It is like a duty to show what cannot be seen
except with the eye of media: water flowing uphill
or sideways, upside down rolling seas or a weather
beaten drop of a glacier melt. “The idea
is that perhaps the audience could feel a part
of this creative trance, living for a moment in
a mental world where they have never been.” |
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Steina |
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| D E S C R I P T I O N |
In ORKA, a three-channel video environment,
the three disk players provide one video and two
audio sources to three projectors and six speakers.
A video synchronizer aligns the three channels
for synchronous playback. At the end of each fifteen-minute
cycle, the program automatically returns and re-synchronizes
for a repeat performance.
The images in Orka — which means “life
force” — were shot by Steina in the
wilds of her native Iceland in 1996. A “tracer”
device performs recording of the traces of the
micro-movements of nature over time, such as the
paths of birds and waves. |
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