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BEN RUSSELL

THE BLACK AND THE WHITE GODS
With echoes of Tony Conrad's The Flicker and William Basinski's Disintegration Loops, The Black and the White Gods seeks to interrogate the possibility of representation via the abstracted field of bodily experience.
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Finished

Date

15 May 2010

Timetable

21 hs.

Venue

Central de diseño

Location

Sala Cubo

Institution

Central de Diseño
Using a short segment of Russell's early ethnographic film Daumë as its foundation, this double-projection performance employs a variety of 16mm film loops, hand-built electronics, prismatic lenses, and analog components to create an audiovisual feedback loop that edges steadily towards the phenomenological. With echoes of Tony Conrad's The Flicker and William Basinski's Disintegration Loops, The Black and the White Gods seeks to interrogate the possibility of representation via the abstracted field of bodily experience.

Previously, his film Trypps 6 (Malobi) (16 mm.) will be screened.



Artistic team and specifications

Duracion
screening, 12’, and performance, 20'