Apollo Poetics

“collecting words from outer space”

artist notes (2011)

“transmitted data, humming noise, cosmos and the transience of things”

artist notes (2011)

Concept

Apollo Poetics is an experimental digital work focused on the liminal poetics and in-betweeness of historical moments through space-transmitted dialogues between Earth and space terminals. The artist is interested on the mono no aware feeling; developing a sensitivity across ephemera and transience of things. Text, line and circle form the basic vocabulary to articulate strange romantic yet metamodern feeling; both personal and universal. The artist elaborates on transmitted words and sounds, which form a melancholic data coming from the past. All start to take shape by soaring within the empty cosmic space and thus becoming a human-text matter derived from the past but looking towards the future.

Description

Digital video, 2D animation, sound, text

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

Duration: 4:35’

Year: 2011

Credits

Concept – Creation: Bill Psarras

Sound excerpts: NASA space transmissions ©

Selected Exhibitions

Apollo Poetics has been included at the MOVE (WITH) OUT project (curated by Something Human curatorial team of Annie Kwan) with various screenings across Europe and Asia (Portugal, UK, Italy, Singapore, Hungary) between 2013-2015.

Other exhibitions/screenings include: FONLAND Festival (Portugal), Miden Festival (Greece), Washington Experimental Media 2012 (US) among others.

Available

Artwork: https://vimeo.com/29140096

Courtesy of the artist | © 2020 Bill Psarras