Temporal Contours v09: The Latent Body
Tuty Moreno Campos | Inge Teloo Dasha | Marijana Mandusic & Pat Klassen
Originally planned as an in-person concert for pre-COVID Winnipeg, v09 of Temporal Contours took a number of twists and turns on the road to its realization, some related to the on-going negotiation of pandemic measures and others out of the desire from both the artists here as well as Video Pool as an organization not to take away space or distract from the greater causes at hand. In place of the live event we present to you four intimate, studio / apartment based recordings for your listening and viewing pleasure.
Whether or not you were planning on attending the original concert we would like to direct you to donate what you might have spent (or more) to a couple of organizations initiating strides towards social and structural justice and in place of non-police-based community safety. This is some of the most important work going on in Winnipeg right now:
Mama Bear Clan lovingly patrols North Point Douglas and you can donate here: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/north-point-douglas-womens-centre-inc/
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Video Pool Media Arts is ever grateful to the artists on this program for their care, thoughtfulness generosity and patience during this process.
About Temporal Contours:
v09, as a live concert event, was conceived in early 2020. The arrival of COVID-19 and its related delays granted it a new contextual meaning, restricting it’s potential as an in-person experience and resigning it to online format which in a sense offered another layer to its conceptual grounding.
The human body, as a construct of biological and socially contextualized form, is a transmitter. We nourish and inform it and in turn it grows, expresses itself in space (and decays). In performance the body is a site of determination and throughout its duration represents a potentiality, a lived latency within.
Audibility itself is a process of realization and the grounds for this sequence of events were pre-conditioned by a state of existing – through the manifestation, in this case, sonification, of previous stability: a strengthening tension is implied within the original body latent. It is this transference of energy that describes much about its originating sources.
In the processing of audio or in computing, latency is the gap between transmission and reception and can have a multiplicity of causes. Information is momentarily caught up in the matrix, briefly lost or scattered about only to be re-organized and relayed, in this case, in works created to be read and streamed as your are doing now.
Latency also occurs with sound travelling through air – the time it takes between the event or source of a sound to reach the next surface of reception, disruptions in the air containing the aural information in transit. Even when one might perceive signal and noise to be one and the same there always exists a liminal space of separation.
The works presented here intend to address interiority as a space with which to withhold and release. These artists are dealing with fragments of information, intended or spontaneous, found and created, working through a dialogue with their respective bodies – be it material, mechanical, recorded or vocalized and dispatched into the digital communal. What occurs within these zones are what we are considering for Temporal Contours v09: The Latent Body.
Tuty Moreno Campos (ARG/MEX)
In my practice I use video performance, drawing and installations. I use my body to become aware of it, as a space of possibilities. In the face of a society that pressures us in all directions, there is a body that tries to communicate, that gets sick and that we normally ignore. I carry out actions to allow those feelings in the body to come out, represent them, go through them and if possible, transmute them. I understand my practice as a continuous exercise where these ruptures with what affects us are emphasized generating reconstructions.
Camera and technical assistance: Ariel Guerchicoff
Dasha
Remixing the waves of live fm radio broadcasts, Dasha is an improvised DJ project for half-forgotten memories, trauma nightmares, religious visions, and delirious top 40 created by Winnipeg intermedia artist Davis Plett. Created with the support of the Winnipeg Arts Council and as part of Video Pool’s Media Arts Residency.
Inge Teloo
Attempting to map birds, whom I love very much with all of my heart. Folk music for overload. Swaying in breeze, swarming rhizal. I play electronics because I enjoy Injecting so many bell towers into my skull may be. And to dance, of course. Myristicin calamity engine. Deliria. Sun in my throat. It runs on lilac and berries. Frequently shiny objects some times. On occasion. If it pleases you.
Marjiana Mandusic & Pat Klassen
Speech stack with trash level mixing
Pat Klassen repurposes found sounds via tape manipulation and speed control.
Marijana Mandusic is a painter, performance and sound artist. Marijana often uses speech as imagery or to convey and find meaning in everyday thoughts and banal conversations. A large focus of her work is on the emotion, repetition and music of internal dialogue.