LauraL & Meshakai Wolf #129
Doors: 19:30
Start time: 20:00
LauraL (Laura Leiner) - Dark ambient performance
Meshakai Wolf - Simulacra Simulation
In our attempts to understand the complex dynamics of life we have looked deep into outer space and perhaps deeper into inner space. Most times we see patterns and recurrence, as if everything is interconnected, and at others we see randomness and unpredictability, results that may lead us to question the most fundamental beliefs of our time. This series of videos is based on the technique of nonlinear image processing, aka optical/video feedback, and directly explores the spatial and temporal dynamics of our universe through the manipulation of reflected light trapped in a continuous loop. It is a recycling, a copying, ad infinitum of information that is both familiar and abstract, a simultaneous beginning and end; a pulsating, hovering energy field that exists as part of a new framework. It is chaos within a formal medium.
LauraL (aka Laura Leiner) is an artist, composer, self-taught searcher of dramaturgy and researcher with a multi-disciplinary background encompassing performing arts, photography, video, physics, chemistry and communication-journalism. Laura was born in Brazil and comes from the artistic scene of Porto Alegre, where she participated along 20 years with several performances and theater projects. Since 2009 she lives in Berlin, where she has performed several solo projects as well as collaborations with others. Among others projects, which have the goal to explore public spaces, she develops a work with the concept of scenario/ambient, using videos, looped images, fotos or distorted urban sounds.
Meshakai Wolf works with technology such as instant films, inkjet printers, and photographic & video cameras. In reaction to and inspired by automata he manipulates machines and mediums generated by machines in order to reveal abstract imagery. His latest series of videos and two-dimensional works explore optical feedback as it pertains to the visual study of chaos within the multi-dimensional universe and its role as a 'space-time simulator' or simulation machine.
Wolf says about the process: “Digital imagery exists within a pixel/binary structure and as a result is trapped behind the glass of a screen. I've been using an inkjet printer as a transfer device to extract an image's digital information and reinterpret it using the ink and organic material of paper and canvas. Pixels are no longer contained by their lines of code but are now free to bleed into one another in order to create an indelible bond.”