Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
TEMPORAL EVOCATION
Temporal Evocation
Kye Wilson
Reino Unido
2021
Videoarte
Curta-Metragem
Temporal Evocation is a heterotopic non-place, which is at once strange in its familiarity and universal representation of the natural world, but problematic in its lack of specific identity and the intrusion of an outsider who is always rejected.
The piece questions our perception of time and duration by blending different periods of the day into a continuous filmic panorama. The solitary, faceless figure, whether an alter ego or an embodiment of the viewer, appears and then reappears, as a strange yet impossible double (and triple), seemingly within the same time and place.
This displaced and mysterious double space is partly inspired by a hypnopompic hallucination the artist had and, like the hallucinogenic experience between sleep and wakefulness, merges fragments of memories, dreams and reality into a composite liminal zone.
In a world where everything is consumed so quickly, slow appearance can be a strange concept to many. Lacking the punctum of popular films, slow cinema is both a challenge and a meditation. This radical slowdown challenges the viewer to meet their expectations of the medium, the temptation to rush and guess the future is interrupted by the film's pace.
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edition
8° Festival ECRÃ
date and
time
Cinemateca do MAM, Estação NET Botafogo, Streaming do ECRÃ
27-30/06/2024
04-07/07/2024
15h-20h
24h por dia
duration in min
17
debut
Première Brasileira
classification
indicative
L / Free for all audiences / Livre Para Todos Os Públicos
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Kye Wilson
"Kye Wilson is an award-winning visual artist who uses moving images to create video art and installations, often incorporating multidisciplinary, site-specific and live artworks. A key focus of his work is how art and technology can be used to explore the embodiment of space by self and other, whilst challenging notions of absence and presence, real and simulated, and live versus mediated experience.
Wilson uses specialist equipment and innovative filmmaking techniques to engage audiences, enabling them to bring their own sense of identity and experiences to the artworks. His mission is to challenge audiences’ perceptions of contemporary art and technology, breaking down the creator/viewer dichotomy in the production of meaning.
Wilson’s work has been presented, exhibited and screened nationally and internationally, through platforms including the Kartong International Cultural Festival, The Gambia; APT Gallery, London; Portsmouth Historic Dockyard; Winchester Cathedral; Osek Monastery/Galerie ITC, Czech Republic; and Circle of Belles Artes, Museum of Fine Arts, Madrid.
He has previously received the award for Best Video Art at MADATAC, the Festival of Contemporary Audiovisual Arts in Madrid, Spain; Best Film at the Undercover Surrealism exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London; and received a Jury Prize commendation at the KinoLevchyk Video Art Festival in Lviv, Ukraine.
Notable commissions include Journeys Festival International to create I AM OTHER, Reckoning with Refugeedom; Faces, awarded by Portsmouth Festivities and commissioned by Guildford Remembers, Guildford Borough Council, and Monocular View, commissioned by Space Interrupted. Wilson also regularly receives funding from Arts Council England, most recently for his projects Empowered Vistas, Angel:legnA and Empathy Machine.
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