2014 – Cyland Video Archive https://videoarchive.cyland.org Video Archive Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:54:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.25 The Value of the Present Moment https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/the-value-of-the-present-moment/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:07:36 +0000 https://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=20711 With The Value of the Present Moment, the internationally active media artist Marc Lee (b.1969, CH) connects the spiritual moment of the present with the form of media in real-time. This relates to the hippie movement of the 1960s, in which meditation was practised as a path to self-knowledge.    Current media developments on the … Continue reading "The Value of the Present Moment"

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]]> With The Value of the Present Moment, the internationally active media artist Marc Lee (b.1969, CH) connects the spiritual moment of the present with the form of media in real-time. This relates to the hippie movement of the 1960s, in which meditation was practised as a path to self-knowledge. 

 

Current media developments on the Internet celebrate real-time as the promise of an eternal now and an apparent spatial accessibility. The media phenomenon of the temporal modus in real-time demands unlimited contemporaneity. The media-based now – the process of the immediate transfer of information and the prompt exchange of image, sound and text – can, in this context, be brought into association with improving efficiency, user optimisation and the illusion of transparency. Marc Lee contrasts this with a spiritual idea of the now. In various spiritual teachings, a conscious ‘living in the present moment’ is described as a condition of knowledge and enlightenment, transcending both space and time. The hippie movement of the 1960s had a particular affinity for meditation, which promised salvation through being in the now. Lee considers real-time images to be an unfiltered reproduction of reality. In his work, thus, it is less the real-time transmission and much more the real-time mode that is put in context with the spiritual ideas of the hippie movement, which championed an anti-authoritarian and anti-hierarchical world and world orders. On the day that it went online, there was a post hippie performance, during which the webcam switched between the persons who were present and transmitted the images to the website of www.collective-view.ch. During the following weeks, the webcam was suspended upside down in the trees above the performance location, and traces of the performance were still visible. During this time further performances took place, spontaneously and unpredictably. 

Text: Damian Jurt 

 

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]]> Academy https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/academy/ Wed, 05 May 2021 16:41:52 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=12290 The video is a game between body, art and publicity. It shows the lesson of drawing in the Art Academy. The camera is concentrated on the drawing, which presents a nude male body. The affinity and slow-motion of the camera forces the effect of intimacy and eroticism of this moment. From one side it is … Continue reading "Academy"

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]]> The video is a game between body, art and publicity. It shows the lesson of drawing in the Art Academy. The camera is concentrated on the drawing, which presents a nude male body. The affinity and slow-motion of the camera forces the effect of intimacy and eroticism of this moment. From one side it is the nude male body, but from another side, it is the piece of “etude” included in the everyday study practice. This video poses the question of where is the border in the perception of the nude body.

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]]> The Fragments of Disappearing https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/the-fragments-of-disappearing/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 15:30:40 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=12258 The issue of interaction between text and media is crucial here. Whenever a new element emerges (new note in music, breath before new piece of poetry,new location), everthing else is suspended for a while,which forms general rhythm of the entire work

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]]> The issue of interaction between text and media is crucial here. Whenever a new element emerges (new note in music, breath before new piece of poetry,new location), everthing else is suspended for a while,which forms general rhythm of the entire work

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]]> A lot of things https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/a-lot-of-things/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:19:01 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=12092 For 10 minutes, the same text is repeated, with the same pauses, with the same intonation, in the likeness of a phone ringing. One phrase: “everyone has a lot to do, a lot to do, a lot to do, everyone is busy” – for all the abundance of contacts, in a noisy and swarming city, … Continue reading "A lot of things"

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]]> For 10 minutes, the same text is repeated, with the same pauses, with the same intonation, in the likeness of a phone ringing. One phrase: “everyone has a lot to do, a lot to do, a lot to do, everyone is busy” – for all the abundance of contacts, in a noisy and swarming city, all these are meaningless words, loneliness turned into a routine.

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]]> Between two theatres https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/between-two-theatres/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:16:47 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=12059 Between two theaters (Musical Theater and National Theater) on Kirov Square in the city of Petrozavodsk there is another theater – right on the square in the late evening you can see street racers. On the roof of the National Theater there is a camera that broadcasts machine choreography on the Internet. During the day, … Continue reading "Between two theatres"

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]]> Between two theaters (Musical Theater and National Theater) on Kirov Square in the city of Petrozavodsk there is another theater – right on the square in the late evening you can see street racers. On the roof of the National Theater there is a camera that broadcasts machine choreography on the Internet. During the day, I noticed that the area was streaked with traces of tire friction on the asphalt, and for two or three days I painted over these traces with white, making them visible not only to me, but also to others. These traces record this theater of movement, it lasts in these static traces, it is his handwriting.

 

 

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]]> Another day https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/another-day/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:40:23 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=12070 A boy with a girl on his lap is clapping her butt in the rhythm of routine, waiting, slowly repeating the clap like a clockwork counting stereotypes. Images inscribed in a picture of time, the vocabulary of sexes distinguished from sex. Green coloured hands masking moments of disturbance, of plants echoing nature in the realm … Continue reading "Another day"

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]]> A boy with a girl on his lap is clapping her butt in the rhythm of routine, waiting, slowly repeating the clap like a clockwork counting stereotypes. Images inscribed in a picture of time, the vocabulary of sexes distinguished from sex. Green coloured hands masking moments of disturbance, of plants echoing nature in the realm of culture that has passed to come as uncanny as the synchronicity of the repressed.

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]]> Just My Own https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/just-my-own/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:12:49 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=12076 This performance video portrays the esoteric mission of an individual to have meaning beyond biological function or social expectations. Swaying on a foot, hugging and balancing potentially being both someone´s child and someone´s mother ‐ the artist makes a critical attempt to physically embody a role defined by one´s self.  

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]]> This performance video portrays the esoteric mission of an individual to have meaning beyond biological function or social expectations. Swaying on a foot, hugging and balancing potentially being both someone´s child and someone´s mother ‐ the artist makes a critical attempt to physically embody a role defined by one´s self.

 

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]]> Mustard Seed https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/mustard-seed/ Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:26:01 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=11894 Art has become a kind of spiritual practice for the artist. He is in search of a new symbol and the deep interaction between the layers of our existence. This basic component of this work is the Antibody costume which is the artist’s cover, his fabric cocoon; a monochrome, excluded from the color paradigm of … Continue reading "Mustard Seed"

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]]> Art has become a kind of spiritual practice for the artist. He is in search of a new symbol and the deep interaction between the layers of our existence. This basic component of this work is the Antibody costume which is the artist’s cover, his fabric cocoon; a monochrome, excluded from the color paradigm of the world.

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]]> Ginger-space waltz https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/ginger-space-waltz/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:41:52 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=10645 Multi-channel video installation, 100 seconds long video loop. A metaphorical waltz of the working class man in a heavenly blue ginger space. The graceful movements honed from virtually endless exercises. Prototypes and their emanations visualized lose and re-find each others in the lace of light and darkness.

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]]> Multi-channel video installation, 100 seconds long video loop.

A metaphorical waltz of the working class man in a heavenly blue ginger space. The graceful movements honed from virtually endless exercises. Prototypes and their emanations visualized lose and re-find each others in the lace of light and darkness.

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]]> Instruction https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/instruction/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:05:06 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=11477 This video made with the instructional films aesthetic. There were a lot of film directors who made instructional films in America in the 50s. These films were about simple things, for example: ‘how young people should do on a first date’.

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]]> This video made with the instructional films aesthetic. There were a lot of film directors who made instructional films in America in the 50s. These films were about simple things, for example: ‘how young people should do on a first date’.

I’m interested in this instructional film aesthetic because it marking the existence of dictatorial structure, which determining through a person which voluntarily accepts this structure and obeys with it. I exaggerate this situation in this work, by means of shifting it into an experience of love field. The hero is occurring with an absurd situation where he should try to control his love feelings with the mnemonic rules.

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