Elements of Light
Elements of Light. Installation. Photography, looped video,
sound, structure. Dimensions variable. 2008.
Two weeks in 2006 in art residency
in Greece, Cypriot-Greek Oros Kharasson Contemporary Art Centre situated on the
Syros Island in Greece, the capital of the Cycladic Archipelago. The striking
natural beauty of this area and the unique buildings of the Oros Kharasson
created by two artists, Niki Liodaki and Giorgos Sfikas, in accordance with
long observations of natural phenomena in this area and solar cycles - all this
has given the first impulse for the project 'The Elements of Light'.
This project was exhibited in May 2008
at the Hellenic American Union in Athens. This work marks my further
experimentation with the ideas of space perception and light phenomena. As
a result, an unusual project was created under the direction of an outstanding
curator, Boris Manner, professor at the Vienna University of Applied Art. The
project consists of two vivid artistic statements (Markus Proschek and Eugenia
Emets) brought together to form a complex and unified whole.
Collaborative project of the Stella Art
Foundation, Moscow; Vienna University of Applied Art; the Hellenic American
Union, Athens; and the Marina Noel Foundation, Kerkyra, Greece
In Between
Photons: In
between the death and the birth of the image
Creation starts
long before one finds out any motivation inside oneself to do something.
It is the state
of freeing.
The universe is
constantly created and destroyed and that process has neither beginning nor
end.
The beginning
as well as the end of time is fixed for human mind only, determined by the
nature of division.
From the state
of in between of these imaginary points mind can travel beyond its self.
It goes beyond
self-identification with any conception.
It can be
offered to the universe for the benefits of any being ever living.
Through the
dissolution of its self the mind penetrates everywhere.
And from there
it perceives that there is no distinction between inner and outer space.
There is no
conflict between logic and intuition or spontaneous and deliberate actions -
they are aspects of one wave form.
The project in
many different ways goes to Oros Harasson, the place for art and life.
It is the
source of radiance that spreads in waves of energy beyond the island of Syros
to the farthest lands connecting people in space and time.
Because the
centre was created in accordance with the knowledge of the alchemy of natural
elements and the character of landscape, it is the right place for the inner
sources to be explored.
Which are the
aspects that I have touched in my Oros Harasson experience?
It is revealing
inner eye and inner ear.
To be born you
have to make a movement inside out and to wake up vice versa.
In a life
charged with communication one is the response and reaction to innumerable
external impulses.
The state of
retreat which is achievable here implies the dilution of outer irritants and
makes it possible to observe every thing.
This is when
inner vision and hearing get manifestation.
And in between
the multitude of sounds and images which are still strong inside there are rays
of clearness. The mind becomes a transparent prism refracting light, sound, energy.
Immaculate mind
always at the edge of the abyss of the unknown produces an impulse for the
purpose of self investigation.
The mind has to
overcome the state of primordial inertia otherwise it would wander endless
dream.
The image in
its potential is invisible.
It gets
manifestation when there is a call for awakening in search for impossible.
It gives a
chance of birth of an image preceding the fight between light and dark.
This image
draws the axis between disclosed and latent.
It can be born
through acting crystallization.
There is an
inner vibration at the heart of every motivation and motion.
In between the
coils of light spiral gyrating simultaneously in all directions there is no
nostalgia for the past and no affection for the future.
The motionless
now is the embodiment of the image.
It does not
necessarily need realization, but can be visualized in a form of an artwork.
At this point
it relatively acquires the attributes of time, space and evolution vector.
This project is
the synthesis of acting through photography, video, and installation work.
Acting through
photography and video adds another dimension to the principles of acting.
Photographic
light process (be it digital or analogue) offers a spectrum of methods of capturing
and transferring the movement of light.
It offers
opportunities to investigate the border between static and moving state and all
the transitional phases in between.
The image is
hidden in absolute black or white but only due to relativity of time during
which we observe the actual alteration of the image we are able to perceive it
with our senses.
The camera
itself is the continuation of deliberate fixating.
In this sense
the photographic work is not documentation but an integral experience of the
project.
The method of
self-portrait allows encircle the three points: photographer, camera and model,
making the process hermetic, providing deep insight, experiment and
non-attachment to the result.
Looking inside
one comes to observe the space of mind projection, like fantastic images
appearing and vanishing in smoke.
In the project
identifying with different phenomenon through acting in a projection of mind is
not a performance or ritual. It is an act of discovering the origins of
creation.
The
installation exists in the dimension of electronic vibrations, which form
abstract soundscapes.
Free musical
noise in between tones unites inhale and exhale into the extended rhythm of
breath.
Experimenting
with perceiving music with inner ear offers a fantastic experience of falling
awake.
Impersonal
music outlines another system of orientation, disconnecting from analytical and
associative thinking.
Hearing is the
process of dilution and becoming an immense ocean of waves and energy.
Evgenia Emets, 2008
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