Intratropicality /
Por la sombrita, mi amor /
Protocolo Mandarina /
Como los soles /
Arrebol /
Between Tropics and Affects /
Incisors /
Being is difficult to graps /
Friction that doesn’t stop /
Recognition exercise /
One point three meters /
The heavy sun /
Adverb of time /
Solidification /
Today is Wednesday /
Centrifugal force /
Sobre la rotación de un cuerpo /
Juan Pablo Gaviria Bedoya




Friction that doesn’t stop

2021/22

Installation
Single channel video


10 min.

Orlando Helfer Rabaça
Technical support

Lukas Esser 
Sound support


This project arises from the eviction of an antique store called KUNST UND CHAOS. The experience of its gradual disappearance, along with some other stores in the area, triggered questions and reflections about space-time, emptiness, uncertainty and distance. In times of confinement and pandemic, space-time notions have been the object of discussion and have fought not only in their physical interpretations, but also in their emotional dimensions. This sensitive character has opened the way to new ways of relating to dichotomies such as inside-outside, day-night or light-darkness. And it is due to these recurring concerns that have appeared
rethinking about time and its configuration thanks to the perception of movement, a movement that thanks to its restriction has taken on other nuances.




    The current state of the project is presented as a video installation.
    The images of the installation show an experimental montage of the performative reading action that I carried out in front of the antique store. My voice is transmitted by means of a laser device that sends audible waves through the empty warehouse and is amplified on the other side of the showcases by means of another device that receives light waves. This action was carried out as a poetic gesture of reflection on space and the paradox of a confinement that brought with it the increase of emptiness.

    The performance is a reading of notes made during the time of confinement and the devices used are a project of transmission and reception of sound waves by means of laser light (light amplified by emission of stimulated radiation) that I have been developing with Orlando Helfer as part of the research project on affective spacialties and temporalities in the program of arts and media studies at the UdK Berlin.

    A device for transmitting and receiving sound waves by means of laser light (light amplified by emission of stimulated radiation) that I have been developing with Orlando Helfer.
    Photographic footage from
    the Fluid Grounds exhibition at the a&o Kunsthalle,
    Leipzig, Germany.
    Fluid Grounds 
    exhibition at the a&o Kunsthalle,
    Leipzig, Germany.
    Official Selection 8th Bogota Experimental Film Festival 2022

    Colombia Highlights Selection

    Textos / Wrinting  como los soles
    el sol pesado
    Fuerza centrífuga

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