collage – Cyland Video Archive

They’re all dead

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:25:45 +0000

The project aims to focus on the contrast between physical and the digital photographic media. It explores how our relationship with images has been transformed since they became ubiquitous, volatile and temporary, and were no longer experienced as physical entities. Millions of photographs are generated every day as a means of mass communication but these photographs are disposable and almost immediately out of date, while we drown in an ocean of images.

Using animation and video postproduction enables me to develop a space-time discourse and brings the photographs back to a specific moment in the present. The aesthetic discourse centres on the physical attributes and organic nature of the support; this is why the effects of time on the degradation, disappearance and transformation of matter are articulated through metaphors, and visual and poetic games.

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The video piece is available upi request.

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nothings_nomeanings

Darya Cherkashina — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:14:15 +0000

nothings_nomeanings is a multimedia collage of found sound and found video.

In my collages, I meld samples together to create new and unique entities – gestalts. Hundreds of sound and video clips are churned together, each providing their own distinct identity. The exact quality of every recording – the hiss, the static, the color – is kept intact. The samples represent exactly themselves, snippets of recorded media, no more and no less. A video sample is not a direct reference to the subject material. It contains within it the subject material, but it also contains all of the minutia of recording – the perspective (physical and cultural) of the author, the equipment, and the uniqueness of the conditions of the recording, with the arm positioned exactly thus, or the singer holding the note for an extra 1/100th of a second. All of these details comprise the character of the sample, and the amalgamation of these characters can be startling and beautiful. Yet, at the same time, they also often overwhelm me with nostalgia that I have trouble explaining.

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Paper

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 14:13:08 +0000

The project is a series about a happy childhood. At this time, the heroes of my videos are “paper dolls” — one of the most popular toys for girls of my childhood. Preserved collection of dolls 80s-90s, as well as self-drawn at the same time the characters come to life and immerse us in a mad world of the past paper. Cardboard memories, lightness and ease, cut-enacted stories, engaging us in a fun game, very special instill life values. And what is all this different from our present existence?

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