Frames of Reference
2012-12-21: A day without premonitions. 9.42 p.m.: Vertigo, falling backwards, concussion. Unconsciousness and haemorrhage.
Intermission beyond the concrete. NDE/REVA. A soothing dreamscape, discerning glimpses of a remote reality. An intense intruder breaching the protection, the refuge...
Unobtrusive voices from discreet phantoms surrounding the object. Reduced to a number. Clinical tests in sterile, white light. A dance macabre, echoing boundlessly in all extremities.
Left alone in a dissociated state. Alienation from the situation; looking at himself from the outside - seeing a character in a work of art or a work in progress...
4+°C
If this photograph had one, single keyword, it would be denial. The 4°C (39.2°F) scenarios, emphasized by an increasing number of scientists, are devastating. To quote a World Bank report from 2012, these scenarios will imply: "...the inundation of coastal cities; increasing risks for food production potentially leading to higher malnutrition rates; dry regions becoming dryer, wet regions wetter; unprecedented heat waves in many regions, especially in the tropics; substantially exacerbated water scarcity in many regions; increased frequency of high-intensity tropical cyclones; and irreversible loss of biodiversity..." Time for action or inaction..?
4+°C is one of 14 artworks in the multimedia exhibition Carbon Footprints - with art by Unda Arte and music by Armand Gutheim - shown in Coimbra, Portugal, February 2013. The main theme concerns the environment and our lifestyle, explicitly and implicitly...
The Leisure Pool
Except problematizing what many industries/companies adventurously leave behind.., The Leisure Pool also poses questions about the future aesthetics of photography in this domain... Thus, the role of the artist/photographer may become more ambiguous.
This photograph is one of 14 artworks in the multimedia exhibition Carbon Footprints - with art by Unda Arte and music by Armand Gutheim - shown in Coimbra, Portugal, February 2013. The overall theme concerns the environment and our lifestyle, explicitly and implicitly...
This photograph is one of 14 artworks in the multimedia exhibition Carbon Footprints - with art by Unda Arte and music by Armand Gutheim - shown in Coimbra, Portugal, February 2013. The overall theme concerns the environment and our lifestyle, explicitly and implicitly...
Industrial Remnants
A deserted carbonic acid factory... In
the Western world the industrial era is mostly in the past... However, some companies in the West establish new factories in developing countries, by
economic and environmental reasons...
Industrial Remnants is one of 14 artworks in the multimedia exhibition Carbon Footprints - with art by Unda Arte and music by Armand Gutheim - shown in Coimbra, Portugal, February 2013. The main theme concerns the environment and our lifestyle, explicitly and implicitly...
A Different Ambience of Black
Is this an exterior or an interior..? What you see is actually a wall inside a house... A building without a roof..!
Hyperrealism is sometimes claimed to be the characteristic mode of postmodernism (for example Jean Baudrillard in Simulations, 1983). In the realm of the hyperreal, the distinction between simulation and the "real" disappears...
Crime novels/psychological thrillers, crime television series etc. may, at times, influence our view of black/darkness... These kinds of genres are often inspiration sources - also in everyday life...
In certain expressions, "dark" denotes something destructive, scary and/or depressive. These expressions are popular - easy to use - in the media. This may be contributing to the survival of the particular associations...
Especially in regions with relatively few sun hours, it is important to note that more or less creepy, obscure associations concerning black are neither natural nor deterministic... See Ambience below, where we go beyond this, and Struggle with God, another example of hyperrealism.
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