DEMOLITION

interactive video installation, 2004

What it is

Demolition is an interactive video-installation that tries to value and recover the meaning of a single channel image. It acts towards proposing an investigation about the nature of an image and its relation to its broadcasting means: the projector and the screen.

How it looks

In a corridor type room we can see from the entrance an image projected on to the opposite wall. In the middle of the room, half way to the projected image, there is a red button at the reach of a hand. Both projector and speakers are hanging on the ceiling so that the room looks empty.

What happens?

People come in the room and see the image ZERO. Nothing happens unless a person presses on of the buttons. Every time a button is pressed, we have in real time, the projection of a new image followed by its respective sound. That enables each person to give to the edition its own rhythm creating different tempos from the same image bank.

The image

The installation soundtrack is fundamental. Each time the wall suffers an aggression it is the sound that links what happens in the installation itself. Image ZERO does not have a sound but the other images have the sound of the wall being demolished in its different stages. The idea is that while changing images the audience can also create a sound track that both causes and supports the demolition.

Exhibitions:

_Sónar Sound São Paulo. Sonarama: Multimedia installations. São Paulo, Brasil.

Curator: Lucas Bambozzi.

_Piemonte Share Festival. Torino, Itália.

Curator: Mario Soares

_Techne 05 Festival. Milão, Itália.

Curator: Romano Fattorossi

_Exhibition ‘Do outro lado do muro’. São Paulo, Brasil.

Curator: Ricardo Oliveros.

Credits:

_Concept: luiz duVa

_Production: Ricardo Oliveros

_Architect: Eliane Koseki

_Hardware: Teo Ponciano

_Scenography: Cenotech

_Director of photography: Rinaldo Martinucci

_Assistent: Bruno Martinucci