Around now

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2001, 16mm film, 5’

Two films, 5 minutes each, shown simultaneously as two projections on opposite walls.


Two simultaneous films each 5 minutes, shown as two projections on opposite walls.

Around now consists of two films playing simultaneously, each 5 minutes long. One film is a single take shot while flying 360Ëš in a perfect circle around a cloud. The other film is the same circle but filmed facing the opposite direction, out into the surrounding skyscape while flying around the cloud. The two films are projected simultaneously on opposite walls of the gallery. In projecting simultaneously the two viewpoints, the installation 'Around now' explores the act being carried out. The gallery becomes the space in-between, the ‘cut out’ circle of the path taken, which we inhabit as viewers.  As opposed to the end points (A and B) the middle or journey is prioritized.

In the unfolding of an event, there is a time of actualisation, of occurrence. The specificity of cinema is its disclosure of the image in the real time that becomes the lived time of the viewer, the mapping of one time onto another. Cinema carries out a suspension of the world and ‘it is the suspension of the world rather than movement, which gives the visible to thought, not as its object, but as an act which is constantly arising and being revealed in thought’. 

Around now consists of two films playing simultaneously, each 5 minutes long. One film is a single shot taken while flying 360Ëš in a perfect circle around a cloud. The other film is the same circle but filmed facing the opposite direction, out into the surrounding skyscape while flying around the cloud. The two films are projected simultaneously on opposite walls of the gallery. In projecting simultaneously the two viewpoints, the installation Around now explores the slippage between two points of view. The gallery becomes the space in-between, the ‘cut out’ circle of the path taken, which we inhabit as viewers.  As opposed to the end points (A and B) the middle or journey is prioritized. 


In the unfolding of an event, there is a time of actualisation, of occurrence. The specificity of cinema is its disclosure of the image in the real time that becomes the lived time of the viewer, the mapping of one time onto another. Cinema carries out a suspension of the world and ‘it is the suspension of the world rather than movement, which gives the visible to thought, not as its object, but as an act which is constantly arising and being revealed in thought’. 


 



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