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- arkadi took part in 'impure thoughts looking'; a trilogy by vania rovisco, july 2009, in berlin
we are trying to form our own work in our living times and living bodies, the german language nomenclature's it as spirit of the times - zeitgeist. not always knowing precisely where to go or how to put, we search further info processes, possibilities, accidents, failures and triumphs. what seems obvious is that a new language is needed, even if an internal one, so that other perceptions can come forth in the work we search.
we are bringing together distinct creative processes (such as encopassing various mediums, music, visual, dance etc) to experiment with them using the body as a point of departure as well as a medium and destination to what we call 'interventions in space'.
abraham hurtado and vania rovisco join forces on the level of composition and dramaturgy of ready mades (objects,props, sound recordings) to compose and draw certain effects upondisposition of the gallery as a material space.
the material collected and built upon could possibly lead to creation, but the research first 'takes place' it is in awareness of what language or given form is sought by bridge on a wall.
we all know what is meant when we speak of a 'theater', a 'room', the 'corner' of a street... such terms serve to distinguish particuler spaces and bring to mind the uses to them associated. we are challenged and challange gallery spaces. our common desire is to explore how to work in alternative/informal spatial contexts. space, what relations can spatial desposition arouse in the public? does what is being proposed vary in understanding, when changing space?
a vital part of this project is to explore what live installation is. the notion of presence seems to be constantly hovering in the work.
what conception of the body are we to adopt or readopt, discover or rediscover when confronted with each other in such spaces?
another central issue is the occupation of space and the ways of dealing with it. Space transforms itself in the 'slipping' of the ready mades into one another, to then spread out in their 'spilling' into expanding space.
since it all happens live, will spatial disposition greatly inform the process and it's collaborators? that is much - wanted/sought risk... how will spatialdisposition affects the process and it's collaborators?
it should be noted that bridge on a wall is very aware that notions such as project, exhibition, live installation, event, objects, ready mades, work, proposals, are used repeatedly almost without fissure creating some kind synonymity of clashing sound in the written text. this seems viable to us, for the task we have at hand is to seize the moment deployingit in it's most possibly layered fashion. we search for alternative spaces and perceive different relations, comprising both the public and ourselves.
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