2019
Territorial Poetics (II: Unfolding)
“in the name of atonement, we re-inscribe everyday”
artist’s poem (Asphalt/Era, Tundra, Pigi Publications, 2017)
“κάθε μέρα ξαναχαράσσουμε στο όνομα της εξιλέωσης”
ποίημα του δημιουργού (Άσφαλτος-Εποχή, Τούνδρα, Εκδόσεις Πηγή 2017)
Concept
Territorial Poetics (II: unfolding) forms a site-specific walking performance for camera, where the artist walks, pushes and gradually unfolds a big piece of old paper-roll upon the railroad tracks of the old abandoned railway network of Peloponnese, during the morning twilight. The unfolding action of the artist re-inscribes an ongoing dialogue between the everyday mundane and the spiritual. The artist acts like a seed, an object, a ritualistic intention which unfolds and spreads out the potential. Based on Sisyphean semiotics and an auto-ethnographical approach of the personal and the collective, Territorial Poetics forms an ephemeral situation between site, body and repetition, making a spatial statement about the universal processes of effort, communication and journeying.
Description
Site-specific intervention, walking performance for camera and drone, 520m paper, found stones
Technical: Full HD video, 16:9, colour, single channel, stereo sound
Original shooting format: 4K
Duration: 25:42
Year: 2019
Credits
Concept - Performance - Creation: Bill Psarras
Main camera: John Tsanis
Drone camera: Chris Spanos
Extra documentation photography: Nansy Charitonidou (>)
Available: https://youtu.be/zOcsYBqzVt0
Teaser: https://vimeo.com/352446214
© Bill Psarras
Territorial Poetics (II: Unfolding) was conceived for the purposes of Into My Garden Come group exhibition (Oct 2019),as part of the Primarolia Festival, curated by Nansy Charitonidou, in Aigio (5-20/10). The work has been also exhibited as single channel video or video installation in other group exhibitions: The Film and Video Poetry Society (US, 2020), CICA Museum of Art, ‘Circle’ group exhibition (South Korea, 2020) and +The Institute [for Experimental Arts] as part of the International Video Poetry Festival (GR, 2019) among others.
“..performing visual elements: a line (body), a circle (in situ camera) and a plane (drone)”
artist notebook (July 2019)