Territorial Poetics (III: Vanity)

“all our weaknesses turned into arrogant poetries”

artist’s notes (unpublished poem, 2019)

“όλες μας οι αδυναμίες έγιναν (π)-οίηση”

σημειώσεις καλλιτέχνη (αδημοσίευτο ποίημα, 2019)

Concept

Territorial Poetics (III: Vanity) is part of the Territorial Poetics series of works. Vanity (οίηση) is a site-specific performance/action for camera, where the artist pushes and piles pebbles and stones while he gradually paints them gold. Bill Psarras carries out a durational action under the rubric 'all our weaknesses turned into arrogant poetries'; he performs a futile action in front of the sea vastness by turning stones into gold; a silent question between poetic and political; between sincerity and arrogance; between eternal and transient. The video performance initiates from vanitas themes on the transience of earthly things focusing on a reconsideration of Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Thus passes worldly glory)

Description

Site intervention, performance for camera/drone, stones, gold paint

Technical: Full HD video, 16:9, colour, single channel, stereo sound

Original shooting format: 4K

Duration: 13:32

Year: 2020

Credits

Concept - Performance - Creation: Bill Psarras

Action / Drone camera: Christos Spanos

Documentation photography: Nansy Charitonidou (>)

Available: https://vimeo.com/424706460

©2020 Bill Psarras