TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION and CONCEPT

VIDEO

Title: We are also what we are not - Eve

Technique: HD digital video, colour, sound. Single channel.

Ratio: 16:9

Length: 3 min 41 sec

Format: MP4

Year: 2022

TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT for PROJECTION or AMBIENTATION 

a) Projection

The video is projected onto a screen, wall, or monitor.

Size: adaptable to the availability of the space/screen/monitor. Best hight of image: ca. 220 cm.

Ambient: dark

Equipment: 1 video projector with audio system. 1 disposal to fix the projector.

b) Ambientation

The video is projected 4 times side by side, to cover a whole wall. See image above.

Each projection is positioned side by side to the other. The four projections are delayed.

For this case, the video will be provided in vertical format.

Size: Hight ca. 240 cm, length ca. 600 - 800 cm.  

Ambient: dark

Equipment: 4 video projectors with audio system. 4 disposals to fix projectors on the ceiling or other way.

The proposal can be modulated in order to the space and the technical possibilities.

CONCEPT

We are also what we are not – Eve

“We are also what we are not” treats the capability of empathy in connection to collective and personal history and actual experiences. “Eve” is one of its chapters.

Empathy: a driving force of pleasure, satisfaction, taking care of the other and of ourselves is explicated in “Eve” and presents the diverse facets and contradictions of the concept of identity under the influence of individual experience over time in connection with current events and our capacity for empathy.

We all are part of the whole and the actions of the individual have an impact on the community. Our capacity for empathy is a basic requirement for a harmonious world. But the ability to empathize with what we are not or what does not noticeably affect us depends on individual perception.

The provocative question of empathy is asked of a world that feels threatened and wants to survive. The individual perception of one's own needs and the lives of others, which are also determined by current events, influence individual and collective action. Personal and social positioning is required.

Let’s feel that we are also what we are not!

“Eve” shows the act of giving and receiving. The two figures pour and drink water, the primordial element, like in the harmonious moment when life is given and received, a heavenly situation of “extreme empathy”.

We see two nude figures. One takes an antique carafe and pours water from it. The other holds a crystal goblet and drinks from it.

Their acts are repeated and overlayed.

We hear the soft ambient sound of the movements and the spill of water.

Carafe and goblet are from the artist’s heritage and connect to the personal history of the artist.

Both figures are one and the same person and represent the “me and you” when not yet separated. Specifically, it is the woman.