/ THE VOYAGE OF ARKA KINARI /

/ NAME FADING TOMORROW /

/ NAME FINAL TRANSIT /

/ A DIFFERENT KIND OF ORDER /

/ SILENCE IN THE AWAKENING OF THE WORLDS OS_THE TRIP /

/ SILENCIO EN EL DESPERTAR DE LOS MUNDOS_THE VISION /

SILENCE IN THE AWAKENING OF THE WORLDS_THE THRESHOLD /

/ THE CLOUD IS IN THE ATMOSPHERE /

• It is certainly an unquestionable improvement for everyone -

• Memories of tomorrow -

  / OF DOGS, ASHES AND WEEDS /

  From January untill December 2022.

  CENTRE D'ARTS SANTA MÒNICA, BARCELONA

  Free entrance, limited capacity.

We present some explorations or investigations that try to respond to the demands of the epoch. A demand of a light at the end of the night. No one today can present a diaphanous and perfect affirmation, in the midst of a context of noise, confusion and fear. We propose environments and contexts of moving image that aim to open a crack for understanding.

Fundamental questions are raised: How to understand the use of still and moving image in post-instagram times?, to what degree the screen is really part of our lifes?. Where is located a landscape rendered in the screen?, what is the strength of stories told with images?, what bifurcations in reality are being followed in the cybernetic metropolis?

Explorations at dawn brings us some testimonies, research projects that adopt different strategies and forms to acquire knowledge about contemporary issues around the image, the faculty of imagining, magical forces, and questions of technology and tradition. Franz Rossenzweig said, «A good witness must be the one for whose credibility others literally go through the fire».

As testimonies of that otherness that beats at the bottom of all reality, E xplorations at dawn intends to go beyond the signature and the authorship. The different moments of our research are infinitesimally intertwined, creating a rhizome of resonances.

To cross the interface. Multiplying the combinatorial possibilities, reaching the infinitesimal where every stiff capture falls apart, leaves a door open even among our modest and strange existences. To keep the heart open to listen to that which exceeds in reality, to the unfolding of a small domestic garden or the resonance between the interior gardens and the starry sky. In every exploration of reality there is more than what appears at first sight, because every reality is in excess with respect to itself.

/ THOUSANDS OF LITTLE EYES /

/ SONG OF THE EARLY DAYS /

Static images are presented to the human visual system in a way that creates the illusion of movement.

Santa Mònica  series 2024.

"The concept of 'illusory movement', also known as 'apparent movement', refers to the perception of movement in a static image or in a sequence of images. This phenomenon occurs when static images are presented to the human visual system in a way that creates the illusion of movement."

"Illusion of Movement" is the thematic continuation of the last module of the Observatory in "Video Tuesday 2023", titled "Intimacy vs Media". It was originally developed during the early days of the Unidentified Video Observatory in the nineties. It collected various considerations about contradictions, inertia, continuities, and tensions of personal experience in the contemporary media flow.

Nobody could see beyond.

/ THE SEARCH OF LIGHT /

/ THE SEARCH OF FIRE /

Nobody could see beyond.

We propose a series of four prototypes developed within the framework of the Observatory of Unidentified Video or in its immediate proximity, which are materialized in four publications on this website and four sessions at Santa Mònica in Barcelona. The series focuses on a clear commitment to openness in the work-in-progress, dialogue, and contextualization, through a close and proximate staging.

This study, whether self-produced or in collaboration, focuses on specific aspects of our present that may be illusory, perhaps disorienting. It seeks to intuit solutions or, at the very least, to create a useful context from which progress becomes possible.

From unity to Dispersion

ACCUMULATION OF GESTURES

BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS

Trinomials of the Form

From unity to Dispersion

In linguistics, a trinomial of the form X, Y, and Z (also called a tricolon or tripartite expression) is a set phrase composed of three coordinated elements, usually joined by "and" or "or," which are similar in structure, meaning, or rhythm. A trinomial (in linguistic terms) is a fixed or semi-fixed expression consisting of three parallel or semantically related words or phrases, often used together to emphasize, create rhythm, or achieve a stylistic effect.

We propose a series of four prototypes developed within the context of the Unidentified Video Observatory or in its immediate vicinity. These materialize as four publications on this website and four sessions at the Santa Mònica in Barcelona .

The series is structured around four derivations based on videographic materials preserved in the Archive 94-20 , in dialogue with short-duration modules specially produced to facilitate interpretation. This proposal is centered on feedback with the Observatory’s past contexts —a practice that the project periodically reactivates as an exercise in reflection and continuity.

Each module in the cycle, Trinomials of Form , proposes a dialogue between two historical pieces from the Archive 94-20 and a contemporary short piece produced by the Observatory. This triple relationship functions as a node of recontextualization and reconsideration : it seeks to recover meanings preserved in one of the project’s archives, bring them into play from the present and open up new interpretations , while also stimulating the Observatory’s current production and reinforcing its dimension as an authorial project .

Trinomials of Form focuses on specific—perhaps illusory, perhaps disorienting—aspects of our present. In a drift of uncertainties, the reflections of the common and memory as recollection become blurred. When visions open up, confession turns into ritual, and the archive that contains them collapses into a mere memory; then the experience becomes an endless loop.

This four-session cycle reveals an unexpected map , tracing a reading from unity to dispersion , and from the visible to the invisible . Forms of emptiness within apparent absurdities: a breath that concentrates, unfolds, and dissolves bubbles in the air. Suspended in their reflections of sunlight, they induce thought and, once again, shape a passage that exists only in moments of veiled reality .