gesture series

Collaboration with artist Natalia Cincunegui

'By a serial repetition of ideas and motives I try to come nearer the “right” form - crucial gestures enlarged by cinematographic close-ups capturing some of the drama of this human epos we are destined living. Aiming thus what I call the wrong shape; never aesthetically correct or decorative; a broken Hallelujah, remaining unfinished.

In my work text is crucial; images accompanied by own phrases next to great ones. An intuitive search hungered by longings. Except of my daily [inner] life, The Book of Job, gospels, pop song lyrics, drama and cinema nourish my thoughts and images.

Although my work speaks about what it is to be human in inhuman times, it is never explaining nor sentimental; it is about everything that troubles me and others with me. If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.

Through references and details the topic of what I call Contemporary Cruelty is stressed in my work, revealing an unsentimental view on the victims of sins such as conformism and cowardice, this institutionalised race that can sympathize with everything; except suffering.

Being a human being I am very much aware of how fragile the line is between being legal and illegal, justice and injustice, of good and evil. Everything might be repeating itself, yet it has taken a more sophisticated and sterile form. I therefore find myself in Bernard Shaw’s words: Let us blush over the far more hypocrite and pretentious savagery of our times.

Religion is being used and abused, speaking of God out of fashion, despite all this my work is inspired by this Familiar stranger.

Remarkable it is when people are concerned weather my work is contemporary or not, living in this given period of time, I am necessarily within “our” time and therefore voluntarily or not contemporary.'


Test sequences from the gesture project:




The scenes were taken from the following rehearsal footage.  This footage was taken during studio time gathering and working on material to be used for a possible motion capture project.





Preliminary stills from video.
These images were part of a preliminary short exercise looking at gestures.
 
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To see more of Natalia's work look here

 

Shall I Betray (2006) Ink + crayon on paper 

  

De dos (2004-05) Ink+ crayon on paper 

  

Come on son (2006) Ink + crayon on paper

peter sellars on vocal creative dialogue

Project: Interview by Anthony Heidweiller with opera director Peter Sellars on vocal creative dialogue. The interview was used as a keynote speech at the annual Youth Opera conference in Utrecht.
Role: audio engineer for De Zure Appel.


"When you say dialogue, I say reciprocity. For me I don’t want dialogue just to be read as something that involves words. It is so important that dialogue happens in every possible way and it is just that every action is reciprocal."
Peter Sellars