Is-land
Is-land, 3min 20sec, digital video, 2018.
Part 1
I am sure there must be many islands one is not aware of. Temporary ones,
dependent on the sea level. (1)
When the tide is up, some might be submersed waiting to be revealed when it
goes down again. (2) While this happens on one side of the planet the opposite follows
on the other side. (3)
Part 2
Perhaps sea rocks could be also seen as instant islands. One minute, one might
be climbing these rocks, (4) observing its voids as big valleys. (5) On the next, watching
them slowly sink into the sea. (6)
Part 3
In any case water is implicit when thinking about islands. (7)
1. Because it is part of their own definition
2. Because it is part of their formation process
1.1(Island as a place) Island. Is-land. Isolated land. (8) Place for reflection and
isolation - self-recognition. Stagnation but also a result of movement and reaction.
These lands represent mobility and instability. (9)
2.1. Starting with the high temperature magma boiling and erupting into the
water. (10) The contrast of two elements: the heat of an emerging land and the
coldness of the deep sea. (11)
2.2. The ocean’s constant movement: its waves and currents bringing and
taking sand away. (12) Either the waves are breaking off the mainland into isolated
fragments or creating new ones, by slowly pilling up the same sand. (13)
Forming an Island, 2018.
There Is No Falling is a three-part project beginning in October 2017 and ending on June 2018. Initially planned as a fictional documentary about an island seen on a navigational software, it developed to a semi-fictional study of the complex geographical relationship between the one looking at the screen, the chosen island and the satellite that captured its image from outside the globe. It was inspired by Hito Steyerl’s essay In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective, published on e-flux in 2011.
Is-land is the second act of the project and was exhibited at Chelsea College of Arts Interim Show in 2018. Inspired by conversations at the dinner table with my dad and his various attempts to describe scientic phenomenons with objects he found within his hands reach, Is-land, focuses on interpretation and perspective in human’s nature.
The video was made in collaboration with Rosie Abbey, who translated the text piece into hand gestures using domestic objects and food as metaphors to explain a geological and distant element: the formation of an island.
Is-land is the second act of the project and was exhibited at Chelsea College of Arts Interim Show in 2018. Inspired by conversations at the dinner table with my dad and his various attempts to describe scientic phenomenons with objects he found within his hands reach, Is-land, focuses on interpretation and perspective in human’s nature.
The video was made in collaboration with Rosie Abbey, who translated the text piece into hand gestures using domestic objects and food as metaphors to explain a geological and distant element: the formation of an island.
There Is No Falling é um projeto de três partes tendo início em Outubro de 2017 e finalizado em Junho de 2018. Inicialmente planeado como um documentário fictício sobre uma ilha vista num software de navegação, desenvolveu-se numa pesquisa auto-fictícia sobre a relação geográfica complexa entre a pessoa que observa a ilha através do ecrã, a ilha, e o satélite que captura a sua imagem fora do globo terrestre. O projeto foi inspirado pelo ensaio de Hito Steyerl In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective, publicado no e-flux em 2011.
Is-land é o segundo ato do projeto e foi apresentado na exposição Interim da Chelsea College of Arts em 2018. Inspirado por conversas à mesa do jantar com o meu pai e as suas várias tentativas de explicar fenómenos científicos com objetos encontrados ao seu alcance, Is-land, reflete sobre o papel da interpretação e perspetiva dentro da natureza humana.
O vídeo foi feito em colaboração com Rosie Abbey, artista que traduziu o texto em sinais gestuais, utilizando comida e objetos domésticoscomo metáforas para explicar um elemento distante e geológico: a formação de uma ilha.
Is-land é o segundo ato do projeto e foi apresentado na exposição Interim da Chelsea College of Arts em 2018. Inspirado por conversas à mesa do jantar com o meu pai e as suas várias tentativas de explicar fenómenos científicos com objetos encontrados ao seu alcance, Is-land, reflete sobre o papel da interpretação e perspetiva dentro da natureza humana.
O vídeo foi feito em colaboração com Rosie Abbey, artista que traduziu o texto em sinais gestuais, utilizando comida e objetos domésticoscomo metáforas para explicar um elemento distante e geológico: a formação de uma ilha.