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Turning Screen into Screen

Turning Screen into Screen

Crystal Duarte

Brazil

2020

Performance

Short Film

The work addresses a hybridism or deterritorialization of the contemporary image. The digital video slowly transforms into another type of image, painting. At the same time, the painting functions as a memory of movement, a trace left by the performance, addressing a temporal issue. The present or the immediate is strongly associated with performance art. On the other hand, the image, especially video, is also strongly associated with performance, including as a recording instrument, through which the “moment” survives. The image “hijacks” the present, not only the video that in the work “hijacks” the moment of the performance, but also the paint that functions as a record of the movements. Inspired by the works of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), who combined painting (ancient art) and performance (contemporary art), the work inverts the timeline of the evolution of the image, placing the static image, painting, as the “final product” to occupy the screen. In addition, the painting also undergoes a physical displacement, since it is displayed on a screen designated for video playback. By blending the two types of image, “Transforming screen into screen” aims to highlight an unexpected affinity between the static image and the moving image.

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edition

5th ECRÃ Festival

venues

Online

date and time

Thursday 07/15/2021

duration in min

4

premiere

World Premiere of the live work 5th ECRÃ Festival

indicative classification

L / Free for all audiences / Free for All Audiences

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tags

action, art, colorful, culture, student, immersive, video; videoperformance; performance; videoart; actionpainting

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Crystal Duarte

Crystal Duarte began her research on images through cinema, seeking to break with the norms of cinematic imagery. The artist delves deeper into image research through video. Video then becomes the intersection between cinema and contemporary arts, allowing the artist to explore the body as an image as well. Her current research revolves around the presence of all these symbols in the composition of a work: the screen, the virtual image and the “present” or real image. The artist thus intends to investigate the artifices of the language through which the artist communicates, experimenting with its different expressions and seeking to understand them while using them to convey her own message.

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