ION ON

of HUWS Bethan

UNITED KINGDOM, 2003, 00:58:28

Production : STILLS, HUWS Bethan, DIETER ASSOCIATION
Collection : DAP - CNAP Centre National des Arts Plastiques
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Conceptual art, Interactivity, dialogue, Video, Fiction

Summary :
ION ON (2003) was originally conceived as a drama for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to be performed in the open under a big Lebanon cedar. The film is set in a deserted Sardinian landscape of ruins and the surrounding fields. It fathoms the nature of art from Michelangelo to the present day by presenting an actor reciting forty-five scenes of fictitious dialogues between an artist and a curator. The self is replaced by at least two voices, each of which suggests different rhythms and tones through the actor. Rich in thoughts and allusions, the text moves across a variety of places and discourses, fictions and realities in associative shifts. THIS VIDEO IS PART OF THE "CNAP/DAP" COLLECTION ONLY AVAILABLE IN FRENCH TERRITORY.

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