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There Must Be Some Way Out Of Here
film performance by Georgy Bagdasarov and Alexandra Moralesová + Voice over: Pasi Mäkelä 35 mm slides, 35 min, live sound |
> 12.NOV h 20.00 WAAG
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Baroque drama casting forest as an impenetrable accumulation of sticky-fingered branches, uncanny textures and shadowy and toothy beings, an inhuman place just about to be invented as a piece of landscape.
Hostile nature perforated by the light of reason. Reflections on light while crossing dark forests of the enlightened self seeking the way out of there, out of the self. The fragile moving image of the performance is narrated by a stranger male voice. The text of the voice over is a fusion of relaxation mantra and 19th century poem dealing with the dialectics of the double nature of light and its significance. We play with still images and force them to move with a precarious mechanisms constructed with slide projectors, external shutters, masks and lenses. The human vision, one of the five senses, is situated in his physical body but leads the human outside his body and connects him with the outer world. Seeing moving images as well as hearing a melody is a coincidence of the physiological and mental abilities. The moving image is a construct that calls to be deconstructed and reconstructed again, if for nothing else then for the pleasure it provides. The Victorian philosophical toys (thaumatrope, phenakistiscope etc.) conserved exactly these two proprieties – such a pleasant toy analyzed the visual effect but hasn't erase it. |
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Labodoble was founded by Alexandra Moralesová and Georgy Bagdasarov in 2013 in Buenos Aires as an itinerant artistic, teaching and curatorial body. We were two to form this minuscule ambulant lab with no physical space. We were traveling, doing performances and giving workshops. It changed in 2016 when we rent a place and settle a very basic self-sustained dark room in Prague. We are interested in exploring the possibilities of the celluloid, making films and performances, curatorial work for experimental film and research and archaeology of the knowledge in the field of photochemistry.
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Alexandra Moralesová was born to Czech mother and Argentinian father. She studied at the Centre of Audiovisual Studies at The Film faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). Beyond the inspiration by the practices of experimental film, she's mainly interested in remediation of found footage and found objects. Through various ways of viewing it, those objects represent for her its own possibility of de/construction in order to cross the frontier between analog and digital media and so disrupt the spectacle and alternate existing narratives. It's been several years that she explores the post-production tools as for example the editing table or film viewers. The output of her works is often a performance, film screening or installation.
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Georgy Bagdasarov was born in Armenian family to the sounds of rockets taking off into space from Kazakhstan. He never boarded any of those rockets and spent all his life living in various locations throughout Eurasia. Now he lives and works in Prague. His work explores the space between analog and digital, and merges them together. His works are created under strong influence of structural films, cooking recipes and syntax of computer codes. He combines different media: digital and film stock as well as music and food.
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