All Videos Tagged Sloterdijk (Performance Philosophy) - Performance Philosophy

TRAILER SIN∞FIN - PERFORMANCES AT THE END OF THE WORLD BY VESTANDPAGE (PATAGONIA AND TIERRA DEL FUEGO, 2010)

2015-08-01T11:45:47.073Z

PERFORMANCES AT THE END OF THE WORLD [2010]
PATAGONIA & TIERRA DEL FUEGO

SYNOPSIS

The two characters move through the rooms of a house that has no address: the structure of their interior spaces, stuffed with visions and memories. Patagonia is a hybrid of pathos and agony. Here the Magellan feeling arises by opposing surreal dream-sequences to situations of everyday life. The winds and climate of the land situated at the end of the world cause and favour a continuous disintegration and consequential transformation of beings. The vastness of the area, its isolation and solitude, tell repeatedly of a unique nature, permeated by mystery and surrealism, inside which the individual adapts him/herself searching to find a home.

A VestAndPage production
In co-production with Conflicta Contemporary Art and Science Research, Punta Arenas
Chile / Germany / Italy, 2010
HD ditigal / DVD PAL, color, stereo, 00:38:52, 16:9, English with subtitles in Spanish

Concept, Performances, Camera: Verena Stenke, Andrea Pagnes
Post-production and editing: Verena Stenke
Text Assistance: Matthew Benton
Spanish Translation: Carmen Gloria Contreras Soto
With the support of the Museo Regional de Magellanes-dibam, Cemeterio Municipal, Charles Darwin College Punta Arenas, Estancia Los Copihues Tierra del Fuego.

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sin∞fin The Movie is a trilogy of hybrid art films of collaborative performances by German-Italian artist duo VestAndPage in epic locations around the world. Teetering between the real and the visionary, the films feature the two protagonists undertaking surreal and ephemeral acts. Amplified by the unfamiliar environments, the performances reflect on universal human experiences such as altruism, partnership and the transient nature of existence. Episode #1, set in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego thematically focuses on the intimate, inner domain of the individual and the couple. Episode #2, located in Northern India and Kashmir highlights the topic of society and religion. The concluding episode #3, filmed in Antarctica, engages with narratives on nature and the universe.
Installations and performances have been developed on site, to form the three episodes of sin∞fin The Movie. There is no script or storyboard and the artists’ actions evolve in direct response to the surroundings in which they find themselves. The film recalls the rules of performance art also in its cinematic technique: it is based on authenticity. The camera records what possible spectators would view, yet the movie is not a documentary. Instead the works are pieced together organically, forming an autonomous story generated through the process of making to be read by each viewer in a personal way.

"VestAndPage are hellbent on providing us with fresh iconography, new perspectives of the human body and its relationship with the aggressive, unfriendly world [...] in their commitment to placing themselves in dangerous situations in the name of seeking new images."
London City Nights

"An adventurous intercontinental journey, romantic and unpredictable, that touches the heart and the eye. An authentic visual experience that finally reveals sentiments within experimental art."
Storie Rivista Internazionale

TRAILER sin∞fin - Performances at the Holy Centre By VestAndPage (India and Kashmir, 2011)

2015-08-01T11:35:00.522Z

PERFORMANCES AT THE HOLY CENTRE [2011]
INDIA AND KASHMIR

SYNOPSIS

The two characters in this episode move through the lanes of an imaginary, oneiric city, encountering visions and memories of excess and absence, loss and overflow, surrender and hope. In the quest for their personal definition of what is the holy centre, they confront themselves with the prosaic realities of India. It is as if there was neither inside nor outside, but textures and edges. Their acts are centrifugal, remembrances splint all over the ground, waiting to be picked up after having traveled so far. The characters circulate and watch at themselves as strangers who are drawn to stop by, in the process of adding their stories to others. Unrevealing and revealing is accretive. Meanings, signs, which are layered over ruins and the history dust, are peeled off one by one to be connected and set forth in a map of fragmented time.

A VestAndPage production
In co-production with Sarai CSDS Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies, Delhi
India / Germany / Italy, 2011
HD digital / DVD PAL, color, stereo, 00:37:14, 16:9, English with subtitles in Hindi

Concept, Performances, Camera: Verena Stenke, Andrea Pagnes
Post-production and editing: Verena Stenke
Text: Andrea Pagnes, Cybermohalla Ensemble
Hindi Translation: Rakesh Kumar Singh
Trailer Music: 49 percent by diF_ ISh S and Konrad Bayer
With the support of Inder Salim, SSARL Saariy Samav Aksey Razi Lamav, Shankar Barua | Akademy of Electronic Arts, Arun Metha.

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TRAILER sin∞fin - Performances at the Core of the Looking-Glass By VestAndPage (Antarctica, 2012)

2015-08-01T11:21:32.226Z

PERFORMANCES AT THE CORE OF THE LOOKING-GLASS [2012]
ANTARCTICA

SYNOPSIS

Here the two characters move through the deserted, icy Vastness of an oneiric land. They find themselves creatures being torn between life and death, absence and misleading mirages, fortune and emptiness. The flux of nature is mercilessly immense, where the wind sings its laments and silence its lullaby. All paradises are merciless, in a search for Beauty where anything is a Mirror.
Is there any game left to be played, is there someone left to call for, when clocks don’t display time anymore, and no compass is guiding one’s way? Who’s the player and who’s the pawn, and whose turn is it, when civilization has lost its quotidian schemes, and just basic rules count?
In the backdrop of Antarctica, a place where humans have neither roots, nor future, but only a frail and temporary presence always at risk, all questions inevitably lead to humbleness.

A VestAndPage production
In co-production with DNA Dirección Nacional del Antártico, Buenos Aires and Thetis Spa, Venice.
Presented by Zonadeartenacción, Residencias del Sur and SpinConectora.
Argentina / Italy / Germany, 2012
HD digital / DVD PAL, 00:45:42, color, stereo, 16:9, English with subtitles in Spanish

Concept, Performances, Camera: Verena Stenke, Andrea Pagnes
Post-production and editing: Verena Stenke
Text: Andrea Pagnes, Laura Bucciarelli, Aisha Ryannon Pagnes
Text Assistance: Gaston Lacombe
Spanish Translation: Roberto Ruiz
With a soundscape composed by music of Zai Kuning, Angie Seah, Black Sea Hotel and recordings of Weddell seal callings under the ice by the courtesy of Douglas Quin.

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