Between Body and Space III: Verical Horizon
The third programme of the review of Nataša Prosenc Stearns' film/video oeuvre focuses on her shorter experimental works, which often live double lives, i.e., as gallery installations. In this programme, we will get an insight into the artist's works in this field, some of which are gallery doubles for the films that will be screened at the Slovenian Cinematheque: for example, the project Big Brother's Room, which was the source of the film Disk, or Vertical Horizon, Border, Crossroads and Run City, which were the basis for the short experimental films of the same name. Thus, through the documentation of video and gallery installations, we can gain additional insight into the artist's other field of work, from which her film works have also emerged.
Crossing
A multi-channel installation showing the dissolution of images by fire and water. The first part consists of pictures of a hanging human body fusing with flames. The shapes and colours of the fire and the skin merge, and soon there is no longer any difference between them. The second part shows enlarged faces with traces of fire and water spreading over their surface and sections of the installation in space.
Body Of Water
Body parts begin to live their own abstract lives, for which they have freed themselves of the usual restrictions of the body.
Big Brother’s Room
Leadership, the leading of masses, is a trauma rooted in the psyche of people living in post-Communist societies. Whose marionettes are we, and how free can our decisions be? These are questions of universal significance. The images of crowds, who in the name of different ideas, gods or leaders, release their passions, are transformed into nameless masses.
Reason (Sisyphus)
A two-channel video installation depicting the story of Sisyphus.
Vertical Horizon
A four-channel video installation with images of people looking for a way out of a maze of concrete bricks.
Corner
A two-channel projection on orthogonally placed screens shows the shadows of bodies passing in an urban environment, mirrored on the desert floor below. But somehow they don't match. The shadows, freed from nature, follow their path.
Run City
Installation/Projection was a part of Vladimir's Underpants, an exhibition in public stairwells of Old Pasadena, Newtown Arts, Pasadena, USA on October 28, 2017.
Untitled, 27 March 2020
Video meditation created in isolation during a pandemic. For years, the artist has been recording and archiving video and audio material with ideas she later articulated and edited into videos, films, and installations. The video is designed for vertical projection and is the first of a series of works emerging in an atmosphere of global health crisis and social distancing.
Reposition
Reposition is a group video portrait of five members currently involved in Venice YouthBuild, a program providing education and job training to out-of-school and out-of-work youth to help them reposition into successful adulthoods. The video was produced in collaboration with The Mirror Mirror Project.
The video belongs to a series of "migrating frames" - short videos that do not have a narrative structure. The artist says of them that "they come from spontaneous recordings of things and events in my surroundings. They are made on the spot, in everyday life, when an idea is born out of real-life circumstances. Like haiku poetry, haiku videos are based on direct observations of objects or incidents, which I then edit and complete into meaningful wholes."
Over Double Horizon
Haiku video from the Horizons series.
Clockwork Horizon
Haiku video from the Horizons series.
Finitor Rex
Haiku video from the Horizons series.
Down the Horizon
Haiku video from the Horizons series.
Venetian Horizon
Haiku video from the Horizons series.
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