/ IMPOSSIBLE TIMES /
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Tuesday 14 January 2025, 19:00h - 20:00h
Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica. Barcelona.Visioning-audition of castaway and anonymous imaginaries, improbable and contradictory, dissolutive and disorienting. A conversation is proposed on what a priori appears to be something insoluble, taking as a starting point the twenty-minute piece Niemożliwe marzenia, a fabulation of authorship under a pseudonym in which visual and auditory contexts are excessively confused, strangely suggestive in their hermeticism. Situated on a spectrum that ranges from the light-photographic sound-image to the synthetic hyper-realistic sound-image, this session poses a useful reflection on unsuspected and eccentric limits in human and artificial imaginations inspired by our present.
In Niemożliwe marzenia are compiled a series of landscapes, instants stopped in time, illusions of movement, visions stripped of treacherous identifiers and other variables that, in a kind of floating state, lead towards a land of nothing and no one. Continuation and confusion, disorientation and excess in an attempt to establish a useful and profound reflection. We propose an analysis of the medium and the environment contained in Niemożliwe marzenia, the extent of its disorienting potential, its malice and its naivety.
This prototype session, is a continuation of the process of study at the Unidentified Video Observatory on the progressive dissolution of the essential character of contemporary imaginaries, of their intimate integrity as effective means to understand and open curiosities.
Niemożliwe marzenia
(Impossible Times)
Lora Tensorska, 35', 2008.Niemożliwe marzenia is a complex sequence composed of static moving images and synthetic natural sounds, in a whole structured in the apparent format of a fabulous tutorial.
After the collapse of the dreamlike and its potential to develop imaginations, a possible strategy-antidote to help overcome the current situation, it tries to lead us symbolically towards the profoundly abstract and then drift us towards the strictly hyperrealistic. It is a journey of contrast and backlighting, with no turning back. It encompasses a gradient composed of various conceptual and sensorial blocks, which, bordering on the absurd, finally reveals the possibility of being able to distil a certain notion of reality from the impossible. The twenty-minute sequence presents a continuity of imaginaries in which the limits deceptively seem to disappear, becoming confused ‘with what appears to be’, with an appearance that ends up disintegrating in disappointment. As if they were fluctuating mirages, the conceptual and technical margins of each segment merge intimately with one another, driven by a soundtrack that agglutinates and compacts a continuity that is impossible by default.
Niemożliwe marzenia is composed of imaginary materials of synthetic and photographic origin, punctuated by commercial static from the internet, appropriated and used without modification.
Pejzaże świata (World Landscapes)
Polecenia (Comandos)
Ekrany dymne (Smoke Screens)