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| Pouze 2024 Read "RKM Interviews Dan Senn" |
Kovové Obaly 4K Video with Stereo Sound by Dan Senn Duration 9 minutes (Click banner image to enlarge) |
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| Pouze Kovové Obaly was filmed
in 2024 in Holešovice, Prague, at two locations on Na Maninách (street). The English title, "Metal Cans Only", is text from the side of a recycle bin in the work. The sound track is from Flat Works composed and performed just before the filming. Both projects were produced at Gasworks Studio in Prague 7. The film is comprised of rhythmic mappings of two groups of recycle bins using a process borrowed from the sound track improvisations. Filmed an hour apart on separate SD chips, the chip-clips from each location were sorted as one file and edited sequentially (Location A #1, then Location Clip B #1, then Location A #2 followed by Location B #2, etc.) causing an interweaving of visual objects. Read RKM Interview of Dan Senn. |
As
the filmed objects were similar, but for graffiti, labeling and dirt, a
perceptual reconstruction of these bins occurs as fragmented stories
might in a similarly organized written text. This sorting method is
duplicated, analogously, in the sound improvisations recorded from
random apartment objects, the mediums merged sensibly in the final
editing. With the two film locations having almost identical objects, and each recorded "found object" from Flat Works representing "locations" of another sort, a composite image and meaning is induced unique to this work. As an interdisciplinary artist often working solo, I have used strategies like this as a way of communicating meaning unknown to myself and, perhaps, to patrons experiencing the work. It is a distinctive method enabling new meaning and perceptual discovery that is neither simplistic reportage nor propagandistic blather. DS062224 |
Dan
Senn (Prague-Watertown) is an
intermedia artist working in music composition and production, kinetic
sound sculpture, experimental and documentary film. He has been a
professor of music and art in the United States and Australia and
travels internationally as a lecturer, performer and installation
artist. He lives in Prague where he directs the Echofluxx festivals,
and Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA. Dan's work moves freely between
expressive extremes and
languages depending upon the aesthetic joust at hand. Dan is cofounder
of Roulette
Intermedium in New York City, Cascadia Composers of
Portland Oregon, and the Echofluxx media
festivals in Prague. (read more). |