INTERVIEW AGENCY An exercise that explores the interview format– as testimony or as a document – and the values associated with it: transparency/manipulation, neutrality/ideology and subjectivity/objectivity.
UntitledDuring nocturnal visits to the self through Sonia. X: And you why....are you like that? S: Because since I was born I am like that. X: Repeat I am culture... S: I... am culture. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
The dream, the journey, the story. Maps and paths. The Yagé. "We must learn to relax our minds if we want to arrive at places".
A succession of mysteries are repeatedly ordered and observed. A ritual for creating meaning. Dreaming, a daily exercise in the free interpretation of reality.
UntitledA map of healing territories, Brooklyn (New York) - Bogota (Colombia). Conversations with Hector Malabé, a homeless Puerto Rican from Greenpoint, and the spiritual properties of lemon sung by an anonymous afroamerican of the Colombian caribbean coast.
Paquito, a homeless Andalucian, solitary situationist, saint of Plaza Castilla in Barcelona. "Insanity does not exist. Insanity is cured by the clouds." 2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
UntitledIA is an exercise that explores the format of the interview – as testimony or as a document – and the values associated with it: transparency/manipulation, neutrality/ideology and subjectivity/objectivity. When the procedure is laid bare, the substance is transformed. It could also be described as a series of visions from a city undergoing a reverse metamorphosis, an encapsulation, we could say: Barcelona 1992.
UntitledIA is an exercise that explores the format of the interview – as testimony or as a document – and the values associated with it: transparency/manipulation, neutrality/ideology and subjectivity/objectivity. When the procedure is laid bare, the substance is transformed. It could also be described as a series of visions from a city undergoing a reverse metamorphosis, an encapsulation, we could say: Barcelona 1992. A series of interviews edited with the camera in 1992 and 1994, and subsequently compiled onto two DVDs. Through the manipulation of the ritual, the interview becomes a space in which processes of the construction of meaning are challenged. Meta-interviews, self-interviews, interviews with the medium, views.
The word is like the fire that fell from the sky in the shape of Garizi (the tuber of power), which our ancestors once ate. It's not tangible, it can't bee seen, it is simply an exhalation (Jafaiki). Odo Buijidima.
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