Jennifer Rosa (art collective)
Experimental dance performance | Photography | Video | Video Installation >>>Italy
Live and work in Vicenza
Chiara Bortoli | Andrea Rosset | Fiorenzo Zancan | +
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"Our video and videoinstallations work develops within a well-defined pattern, articulated in some main elements. First, the subject of the whole work is the human, the human figure. We realize essentially portraits, individual, of couples or of a group. A very popular field indeed, perhaps the most encumbered space in the whole history of Western representation. What we are trying to portrait about the human condition is its pure existence inside the time: we try to remove from the work any other representative content, as well as any psychological or symbolic intent.
Through the implementation of what we might call a device or a setting, the portraits are filtered in order to obtain the emergence of a pure presence. We are trying to act on a surface level, filming actions that allow to the performer not to be sticked in the role of looking for a personal interpretation. We always give to the portraied subjects, a specific purpose to accomplish, it is a simple action in itself, but it is as well complex for the concentration that it involves: people are placed in the situation of having an experience, of implementing a performance.
The camera is in front of them, simple, still: it doesn’t interfere with what is happening. Time flows in the stillness or in the repetition of an action that is itself another moment of being, of “staying”.
Nothing happens but the minimum action required, no pose is allowed but the one dictated by the needs of the device. It is a compulsion, of course, also very unnatural, but through this artifice - opposed to any attempt of naturalness - we can probably get a "truth effect". What appears is the simple presence, the simple being, that however, in spite of this "simpleness", it is not obvious at all.
This simple “state of being” looks at us, the viewers. We are looked at and this gaze is always a question."
Live and work in Vicenza
Chiara Bortoli | Andrea Rosset | Fiorenzo Zancan | +
overview
preview
"Our video and videoinstallations work develops within a well-defined pattern, articulated in some main elements. First, the subject of the whole work is the human, the human figure. We realize essentially portraits, individual, of couples or of a group. A very popular field indeed, perhaps the most encumbered space in the whole history of Western representation. What we are trying to portrait about the human condition is its pure existence inside the time: we try to remove from the work any other representative content, as well as any psychological or symbolic intent.
Through the implementation of what we might call a device or a setting, the portraits are filtered in order to obtain the emergence of a pure presence. We are trying to act on a surface level, filming actions that allow to the performer not to be sticked in the role of looking for a personal interpretation. We always give to the portraied subjects, a specific purpose to accomplish, it is a simple action in itself, but it is as well complex for the concentration that it involves: people are placed in the situation of having an experience, of implementing a performance.
The camera is in front of them, simple, still: it doesn’t interfere with what is happening. Time flows in the stillness or in the repetition of an action that is itself another moment of being, of “staying”.
Nothing happens but the minimum action required, no pose is allowed but the one dictated by the needs of the device. It is a compulsion, of course, also very unnatural, but through this artifice - opposed to any attempt of naturalness - we can probably get a "truth effect". What appears is the simple presence, the simple being, that however, in spite of this "simpleness", it is not obvious at all.
This simple “state of being” looks at us, the viewers. We are looked at and this gaze is always a question."