Project
2008. Fernando Llanos. [VI VÍDEO] (theoretical data)
[ vi video ]
Videointervenciones móviles en contextos urbanos específicos
Videoman is the element that combines residues of urban media supports with the technological world. It is made from fragments and, at the same time, it generates fragmentation.
The project creates new ways (or extrapolated ways) of creating narratives. It ceases to be something where, when at all, mobility takes place on the screen in front of us, to become something that flows with us. The movement lies with the motion of the people, cars and city life.
Influenza [Raquel Rennó and Rafael Marchetti]
IT HAS BEEN PRESENTED AT
- 5th Mercosul Biennal, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2005.
- Festival of electronic arts and video TRANSITIO_MX, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico, 2005.
- 35th Cervantino International Festival, Guanajuato, 2006.
A project of urban videointerventions carried out by making the most of the artist’s body gear to highlight the dynamics referred to by the author as “urban acupuncture”, generating momentary reflections in parts of the city where he appears as VIDEOMAN. A different harness is generated for each edition to experiment other ways of projecting in the streets of the cities.
Everything is recorded in photographs and videos, and everything is subsequently mounted in the shape of an installation.
On the one hand, this project seeks to bring the specialised public closer to non familiar spaces not specifically reserved for art, and, on the other, to get the people who live and pass through those spaces to question aspects of their everyday life, reassessing its history and/or open the way for interaction between artist and public.
INTRODUCTION
We cannot go on expecting people to visit museums on their own initiative. We must take our reflections to their spaces and gain ground in a decisive way, like graffiti that yells out in the streets, “we are here, and this is what we think!”, like pirate radio stations that don’t wait around to disseminate their ideas, share their findings or spread their beliefs, like some metro and street musicians, poets and performers.
DESCRIPTION
A series of videointerventions will be performed in the junctions of Paseo de la Castellana and Paseo del Prado with Calle de Alcalá and Gran Vía, linking the history or the characteristics of the space to the content of the videos. Afterwards, we propose presenting the results of the videointerventions performed in Madrid, México and Brazil, in La Casa de América.
For more information on the nature of urban videointerventions and how the piece can be mounted, we attach a number of images, but you can see videos in:
www.lanos.com/vi_video
VIDEOINTERVENTIONS
These initiatives captivate the public in a direct and surprising way. Their mobile nature makes them ephemeral, and they are mobile because of a harness that I design to enable me to move around and use all the equipment.
The content of the projections may be related to the history of the place, recent events associated with the place and/or local reflections of popular interest. Passers-by can be involved as part of the act and the piece through a “closed circuit” system.
PORTABILITY OF THE EQUIPMENT
Taking advantage of the technological advantages of our era, where equipment is increasingly smaller and more portable, I will wear a harness to hold the camera, two miniDVs decks, a video mixer, the projector and the batteries, in order to subsequently make a tour in which I perform the action.
MOBILITY
The kit mounted in the harness allows me to move and establish different relations with the space and with the people present. On the one hand, this enables me to generate participative dynamics with projections in motion, causing reactions whilst following a specific action, changing trajectory, measuring the interest, etc. On the other hand, for each video shot or sequence, to search for a changing plane in accordance with the specific discourse of the projected video.
CONTENT OF THE PROJECTIONS
1. The previously produced content related to the area.
2. The content generated in situ with the provoking camera (closed circuit) which projects and manipulates the participation of passers-by.
THE PROCESS
Investigate the locations, part of the history and its contemporary problem issues, analyse the best times and places for carrying out the videointervention based on the flow of people and the significant aspects that may arise from working in that space. I record the images and I start to work on the video to be projected. On the day of the intervention, the material is projected in the previously selected space. The act, the reaction of the people and their relationship with the pieces, if they get involved, is recorded.
08prtc1866