Ana Pečar: A score for four waters, video audio installation

Friday 22nd August 2008 at 8 pm, Kibela - the opening of the exhibition, video audio installation A score for four waters by the artist Ana Pečar. The exhibition is curated by Petra Kapš.

In Kibela, space for art, the video artist Ana Pečar presented for the first time the video audio installation A score for four waters, the first implementation in a row of the work in progress with the same name. The water – its states of matter and flow capacity/fluidity – is the basic motif and topic of the installation; water is an entity through which she researches specific features of movement, rhythm, time. The artist has assumed the role of a researcher and admirer; through consecration she discovers the dimension of the watery.

The riverbed of Drava along which the artist would stroll in early morning lights of all seasons, shooting the flowing water, makes for a constant, concealed in all video recordings of a river always different, of varying colours and diverse formations, various rhythms and frequency of waves, relations between the
familiarity of the known and the premonitions of the immaterial within the material. To Ana, the nature is an inspiration and the motif that she captures with the video camera directly. A score for four waters is composed of video recordings articulated in four videos with concurrent music recordings. Again we can declare together with Heraclitus that we can never step in the same river twice. Having said that we can continue that the constellation of four video screenings, of the audio component and of the relation between the video image and its absence as well as the sound and its cancellation always resounds differently, be it in the imageless emptiness or in man's internal images and feelings upon the termination of external sonic pulses. The editing of individual video recordings and audio sequences and the formation of interrelations have focused on creating a rhythmical oscillation – the wave that is partly defined by the linear time and partly expressed through its cyclical structure. The wave is omnipresent, yet seen up close it does not look like oscillation pulsed by numerous factors. It only shows so when isolated or seen from afar, which can be achieved using a recording device, digital editing tools, projecting media and
the position of perception no longer performed upside down but rather horizontally along the line of the spectator's sight.

At formal level A score for four waters intensifies the relation between the video medium defined by thoughtful manipulation of video recordings and the time composition, which results in creating the movement in image, as well as water as a natural element, also essentially defined by time, movement and the related transformations of its appearance. Ana Pečar creates the diversity of water manifestations by composing, repeating, layering. The visual performance of the water is generated between the familiarity of the known and abstract formations, patterns with no intentional narrativity.

The video and audio constellation materialises the artist's configuration of movement, rhythm and time as a method of nearing the constitution of substantial elements of being alive. ( Petra Kapš)

Technical support: Jure Vekjet, Simon Sedmak

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Ana Pečar (1977) - I live and work at the crossroads of new technologies and old
religions. My work is based on thick and strong heritage of knowledge and layer of unreal reality. My field of work comprises video art, intermedia dance performances and audiovisual installation in dialogue with specific environments. When editing sound and image, I follow the rhythm, the pulse of time.
I gained formal education at Corcoran school of Art, Washington, D.C. and the Pedagogical Faculty, Maribor, and informal education at numerous workshops and via the most valued interpersonal dynamics. It is my intentional method to b active simultaneously in several groups. I am loyal to: Digitalna komuna (the dancer and technology in play), Trak 47 (multimedia team active in fields of computer generated music, acoustic sounds, live painting, video and public provocation), BBM (Berlin-based group, specializing in the development of prototypes for artistic tools in new technologies and media artistic items, such a robots, video walls, machine for video and sound production) Byzantine Cadillac (audiovisual cabaret) and SO0GLEDI (a new production unit, a self-organised group of independent authors originating in various artistic fields, curatorship, production, theory and criticism as well as journalism).

More about the artist: http://anapecar.com

The exhibition is on display until 02/09/2008.

Exhibition is part of gRig project, which has been supported by the European Commission - Culture Programme 2000, Slovenian Ministry of Culture and the City of Maribor.