arteles_catalogue_2014

VIDEO-PATTERNS
I’ve been making video projections outdoors at night. The projected
videos are part of a series that I refer to as video-patterns.
They are used as samples within site-specific installations. The
starting point for each video-pattern is a recording of a pattern or
mosaic (in this case) located throughout public spaces in Brazil +
the ambient sound - which remains original and unedited in the
final sample. Practical research during the recording process
includes the investigation of the technical limits of the camera in
use + its capturing program, while experimenting with the whole
apparatus as a bodily extension. Through simple steps of image
multiplication, these first recordings are used to make patterns
that differ from their origin; since the videos are in continuous
motion the images keep morphing into new patterns non-stop.
Even though almost abstract, indexicality, real-time and sound
allow these videos to conserve something of the atmosphere of
the recorded sites. These atmospheres overlap/mix with natural
environments here. On top of a frozen melting lake, for example,
they juxtapose with the sound of breaking ice.