- Brief description – the act of drawing as/and the act of eating
Hunger is an unrealized video work that conceptually is base on the theme of the hunger for realization and materialization. It has been developing (and still is) over the past few years with great difficulty to complete the script and because it aims to take central issues I have dealt with in previous work (drawing, memory, reality and fiction) to the extreme, through using hardly any set and objects, nor actors and to invent a tightly articulated interface between the two dimensionality of the drawing, the three dimensionality of the world of objects and the medium of video. There are technical challenges awaiting a solution...
The video “Hunger” establishes an analogy between the act of drawing and the act of eating, and therefor between materials related to drawing and the substance of food and/or a meal. The notion of 'hunger' in the video is more than only hunger for food (signified by the meal images). Further more, It is hunger and desire for a social situation around a table, but mainly a hunger and yearning for presence, for realization, for concreteness and for reality. The video expresses the desire to bridge the gap between the ideal or the conceptual on the one hand, and the real, the material, the physical on the other hand.
The meal described in the video is never realized in the regular sense, since there is no actual food to be eaten, nor any guests around the table. the actual sensual material experience of the food is thereby replaced by the act of drawing. At a certain point, this action does not satisfy anymore and the hunger for the concrete takes over. This leads the character to an unstoppable desire to experience concrete reality, what ends up in the consumption and eating of the drawings and papers.
The video will depict the act of drawing through shots that will emphasize the materiality of the drawing act : the charcoal smeared on the surface of the “table”, its squeaks and friction with the surface, and the physical effort and choreography leading to the execution of the drawing ritual.
- Brief description – the act of drawing as/and the act of eating
Hunger is an unrealized video work that conceptually is base on the theme of the hunger for realization and materialization. It has been developing (and still is) over the past few years with great difficulty to complete the script and because it aims to take central issues I have dealt with in previous work (drawing, memory, reality and fiction) to the extreme, through using hardly any set and objects, nor actors and to invent a tightly articulated interface between the two dimensionality of the drawing, the three dimensionality of the world of objects and the medium of video. There are technical challenges awaiting a solution...
The video “Hunger” establishes an analogy between the act of drawing and the act of eating, and therefor between materials related to drawing and the substance of food and/or a meal. The notion of 'hunger' in the video is more than only hunger for food (signified by the meal images). Further more, It is hunger and desire for a social situation around a table, but mainly a hunger and yearning for presence, for realization, for concreteness and for reality. The video expresses the desire to bridge the gap between the ideal or the conceptual on the one hand, and the real, the material, the physical on the other hand.
The meal described in the video is never realized in the regular sense, since there is no actual food to be eaten, nor any guests around the table. the actual sensual material experience of the food is thereby replaced by the act of drawing. At a certain point, this action does not satisfy anymore and the hunger for the concrete takes over. This leads the character to an unstoppable desire to experience concrete reality, what ends up in the consumption and eating of the drawings and papers.
The video will depict the act of drawing through shots that will emphasize the materiality of the drawing act : the charcoal smeared on the surface of the “table”, its squeaks and friction with the surface, and the physical effort and choreography leading to the execution of the drawing ritual.