Eyelogues
video installation by Danae Stratou and Alexandra of D.A.S.T ARTEAM
VIDEO SHOW is the initiative of a group of Greek artists in an attempt to remove the video-art image from the gallery space and to surrender it to the street. Consumer electronics shop owners were contacted and asked to replace the images shown on their screens (TV programmes), with the artists’ work. The project will take place in the shop windows located on
The main generating concept of “eyelogues” is to achieve an image that is able to energize and define the space around it and thus to resist full absorption by the rhythm of the street activities. The project evolves simultaneously amongst four screens. Two pairs of eyes “converse”; each of the four screens portrays one of the four eyes and follows its movements independently (from a fixed, short distance) during the “dialogue”. The two pairs of screens are positioned, keeping, in relative terms, the natural distance between the eyes and between the two faces.
The insistence on achieving absolute coordination, faithfully reproducing real time, and precisely repositioning the separated elements in space, strangely enough acts as resistance to the full absorption of the work by its environment. The conscious choice to disregard the possibilities offered by current video technologies was made in order to insist on sustaining an energy field amongst the screens, so as to enable the work to impose its own independent existence.
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