Paces: Lou Mallozzi and Gustavo Matamoros
Lou Mallozzi and Gustavo Matamoros
Paces is an installation that documents a performative act in a selected space, then replays that encounter in the same space, rendering a "media double" of the original activity.
The encounter is simple, physical, and direct: using hand-held microphones, video cameras, and flashlights, Mallozzi and Matamoros lead and follow each other around a darkened room, exchanging simple verbal instructions, simultaneously "chasing" each other and trying to escape each other's pursuit.
As in any extended chase, the rhythm varies from frenetic rushes and tumbles to slow feints and pauses and back again. In addition to the hand-held audio and video gear, four stationary microphones in the space capture the chaotic tangle of paths.
Paces is a charged representation of improvised problem-solving in action, surveillance, and ultimately a strange symbiosis. Its ostensible subject -- the chase -- is left unresolved. Yet the chaos of the movement, sound, and images is strangely ordered and contained in the media environment of multi-perspective playback and continual restatement. The listener has only scant visual information -- the small video images of flashlight-illuminated movement -- and must rely on her/his acoustic experience to reconstruct the original encounter, or to get lost in its swirling mass.
The Art Gallery of Knoxville
APRIL 1 - 28, 2007
Paces: Lou Mallozzi and Gustavo Matamoros
Lou Mallozzi and Gustavo Matamoros
Paces is an installation that documents a performative act in a selected space, then replays that encounter in the same space, rendering a "media double" of the original activity.
The encounter is simple, physical, and direct: using hand-held microphones, video cameras, and flashlights, Mallozzi and Matamoros lead and follow each other around a darkened room, exchanging simple verbal instructions, simultaneously "chasing" each other and trying to escape each other's pursuit.
As in any extended chase, the rhythm varies from frenetic rushes and tumbles to slow feints and pauses and back again. In addition to the hand-held audio and video gear, four stationary microphones in the space capture the chaotic tangle of paths.
Paces is a charged representation of improvised problem-solving in action, surveillance, and ultimately a strange symbiosis. Its ostensible subject -- the chase -- is left unresolved. Yet the chaos of the movement, sound, and images is strangely ordered and contained in the media environment of multi-perspective playback and continual restatement. The listener has only scant visual information -- the small video images of flashlight-illuminated movement -- and must rely on her/his acoustic experience to reconstruct the original encounter, or to get lost in its swirling mass.
The Art Gallery of Knoxville
APRIL 1 - 28, 2007