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Niels Van Tomme
on SOLU's work in 2005:
In
productions such as SOLU’s, we don’t see an edited
succession of images, but rather ‘image edits’.
The succession, the logical continuation, between A, B, and
C is gone; instead what we see becomes more of a accumulation
of different layers. In this sense, one sees a layer of images
that is linked in real time to a subsequent layer, without
the transition resulting in a continuous edit.
The result is a type of narrative structure that has a much
closer affiliation with the non-linear structure of a medium
such as the Internet, than the linear structure of a classic
narrative storyline. Moreover, formerly concrete images are
abstracted through video processing to such an extent that
the resulting images are reduced to white noise. This leads
to a fragmented vision on a complex world in which everything
happens in the ‘here and now’.
There
are almost no recognisable images, not when we are talking
about the image as a representation of reality. We see a collection
of frames on top of each other, structured, and in that picture
we start constructing relations between the different elements
– often pixels. In this construction, these relations
are even more essential than meaning, because they portray
new forms of meaning and new possibilities to create meaning.
Perhaps here, we touch upon the essence of the electronic
image: an artificial construction, which we assign meaning
to through mental processes in which the presence or absence
of convention plays a central role.
Solu’s
work contains references to pioneers in the field of cinema,
such as Eisenstein and Vertov.
Eisenstein’s work is characterised by the meaning and
substance he placed in the editing itself, and Vertov created
a cinema of alienation through his discontinuous editing,
which was more Brechtian in nature.
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NATUROLOGY
[PERFORMANCE
/in progress, 2007]
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Naturology
is a process which started in August 2007 during my residency
at SAT, Montreal. It was presented first time there for a
test audience and continues in progress.
This work studies nature using all kinds of visual tools,
from HDV camera to Max/Msp/Jitter, resembling a scientific
project. Technology becomes a mirror reflecting both the investigator,
a human being and the nature, both questioning each other,
still fundamentally sharing the same biological source and
resources. In this process of investigation "nature"
experiences a synthetic transformation.
Naturology has received support from:
 
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RAMSCAPES
[PERFORMANCE,
2005-06]
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RAMscapes (also sometimes REMscapes)
is best descibed as poetic realtime audiovisual journey. From
the visual matrix appears stories that talk to us in the language
of digital dreams.
Audio
provided by dj SOLU.
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CAMP
EVENT
[PERFORMANCE,
2007]
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SOUND: Tobias
Kirsten, Fried Dähn
VISUALS: SOLU
I projected on two opposite
walls different visuals with two laptops. The style was minimal
and based on texts, lines and figures appearing from the wall.
The texts moved around the wall like they were on ledscreens...
SOUND: Masayuki
Akamatsu, Ricardo Caballero, Tobias Kirstein, Mark L. Kysela,
Thomas Maos
VISUALS: Philipp
Geist and SOLU
Philipp and I improvised visuals
to very short audio sets. we created a panoramicscreen with
projectors, projecting images on top of each other, worked
wonderfully...
The international Festival CAMP (Creative Arts and Music Project)
is an innovative forum and interactive laboratory for soundartists,
musicians as well as for artists dealing with video, installation,
projections and the new media. It is characteristically marked
by experimental and electronic music in convergence with visual
disciplines. For several days a selected group of artists,
who belong to the international avantgarde in their field,
work in a "laboratory of time" on audio - visual
projects which will be presented to the public at the final
performances.
Invited artists:
masayuki akamatsu, ricardo caballero, fried dähn, friedrich
förster, anja füsti, philip geist, paul hubweber,
kasumi, tobias kirstein, mark l. kysela, thomas maos, vj oxygen,
solu and sabine weissinger
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PUNTO
Y RAYA
[LIVE
AV, 2007]
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AUDIO: Raúl
Santos (Supercinexcene)
"Punto y Raya" was
a collaboration between Rául Santos and Solu. The visuals
were to be made using only dots and lines. The performance
took place at la Casa Encendida, Madrid in September 2007.
More info about the event organized by MAD
ACTIONS.
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THE
SCHOOL OF THE HIDDEN DOOR [PERFORMANCE,
2005]
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The school of the hidden
door was a site-specific performance in collaboration with
musician David Dalmazzo, for the art academy
"Bellas Artes" in Barcelona. The visuals were projected
on a blackboard, which was chalked before the performance
in order to have a special texture. The performance was a
story of a kamikaze lost in the clouds, having no way forward,
nor back, and dealing with his doubts about the ideas he had
been tought in his life and the methods of nationalization
of a country like Japan.
In a symbolic level this theme was contrasted to the mythological
story of Saint George (Bush?) killing the dragon, the symbol
for wisdom in the east. As the story goes, Saint George didnt
agree to kill the dragon before all the villagers had converted
into christianism. Science versus Beliefs.
Special invited guest : Stephanie
Vanderdriecche, who recitated a text on the marvels of human
being.
The title comes from Bujinkan, where Togakure Ryu (Hidden
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SUCH
A WHISPER [PERFORMANCE,
2004]
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Such a Whisper was a series
of audiovisual fairytales created in collaboration with musician
Alex Bordanova. Following the tradition of
storytelling we used texs, images and sound to interpret the
stories. For the first session we chosed texts from Daniil
Harms, a russian absurdist writer. The performance was shown
in Convent de Sant Agusti, Barcelona.
"On falling into filth, there is only one thing for
a man to do: just
fall, without looking round. The important thing is just to
do this with
style and energy." DH
For the next session we chosed the texts from the Assassins.
The performance was shown in Gijon.
"The Assassins, a medieval Persian sect of esoteric
terrorists, founded in 1090 AD by Hasan-i Sabbah "The
Old Man of the Mountain" at the Rock of Alamut. Anyone
who opposed their secret freethinking propaganda might be
rubbed out by a fanatical hit-man. Hasan-i Sabbah built an
exquisite garden at Alamut as a lure and reward for his secret
agents -- according to legend he gave them hashish before
showing them the garden, and told them it was Paradise."
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REMIX:
LESLIE THORNTON
[PERFORMANCE,
2004]
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Audiovisual collaborative
performance with musician C.D. (Christian Dergarabedian),
based on the audio and videomaterial of the experimental american
video artist Leslie Thornton (Peggy and Fred in Hell, a work
that has been in process for 17 years).
Commissioned by STITCH & SPLIT-Selves and Territories
in Science Fiction organized by CONSTANT at Fundacio Tapies
in Barcelona. |
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