Light Transitions

This year's edition of the Strictly Analog Festival is questioning the concept of emptiness. Imagine spatially perfectly proportionate objects, with no empty space between them. In the absence of an inter-space, they would lose its value - in the functional sense, their existence would doom to fail.

This year's Strictly Analog wants to investigate what happens in the opposite case - when the space is fully cleansed of its existing objects. Is it possible to imagine physical space only when it is defined and filled with objects, with content, by means of which information is obtained about the relationship of positions between objects and using the derived parameters to determine the characteristics of the area, such as the shape and size? Would the inter-space still exist in the absence of objects? What would happen to the void? Would space without emptiness lose its physical properties and become random, could it exceed the linear perception of reality? The SA theme calls for reflection on the emptiness, the concept, which perhaps represents the last sanctuary of the public space, collective good, and as such offers an new alternative of completely different rules, or even their absence.

(Lina Rica, curator)

Project leader: Maja Milic

Optical sound with modified projectors: Stefan Voglsinger

Participants: Mirna Horvat, Branka Valjin, Guillermo Telechea

The installation transforms the cinematic experience and dislocates its setting to gallery space where it allows visitors to perceive the analog mechanism of 16mm projectors, loops, screen, optical sound - as a distinct cinema object. Two 16mm loops, the black-and-white flicker and polichromatic alterations, are suspended from the ceiling, radiating from mirroring projectors and are accompanied by the stuttering drone soundtrack originating from light inscriptions on film body. The systems of color, contrast and sound concentrate their interaction in the multilayer dispersion of the open cubic space.

The audience is invited to intervene in the playback of the audio fragments.