The idea of making a Logbook that digs into the core of the poiesis of VestAndPage’s recently edited movie trilogy sin∞fin - The Movie (hybrid opera combining Performance art and filmmaking), as cornerstone of an exhibition installation of various original movie performances left over, arouse from the necessity to present a structured - though fragmented - documentation of the work in progress in its various phases. This to give evidence to the project’s intimate fabric, while offering at the same time an opportunity to visitors and readers to navigate across this complex artistic exploration (physical, mental and spiritual) through a multiplicity of details of the artist duo’s investigational creative process, which led to the realization of the movie trilogy itself. The realization and production of the trilogy film project sin∞fin - The Movie took more than two years. It has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of various international institutions, which co-produced the single trilogy episodes in site. Making expressly a site-responsive Performance art movie project, Performance artist, writer and filmmaker duo VestAndPage had therefore the opportunity to travel in faraway, to hardly visited/accessible parts of the world, to conceive and set site-specific performances, finally ordered in likewise lucid dreaming flux and memories sequences: actual content of the movie trilogy. The gathered, capillary documentation of this two years’ diving work has consequently been thought to be structured and organized as a grid to precisely map the two artists’ creative path, at the same time unveiling the processed, performative itinerary lived by duo on the boarders of their bodies, which determined their art actions. The idea of mapping their experience on different levels of reading/fruition, took form since the very beginning, while configuring the different steps of the work in progress of the movie trilogy, and it has developed concretely while living in places such as the Southern Andes, Straight of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia Glaciers, Valley of Kashmir, Himalaya, River Ganges sources, Delhi’s Basti, Chawri Bazar, Qtub Minar, and finally at the Antarctic Peninsula. The report, materially consisting of collected recorded readings, dialogues, and soliloquies, writings, sketches, footages and photos, tells of the travelled distances, which have been transformed by VestAndPage into operational data: shifts of perceptions, reactions to weather conditions, unpredictable encounters, events and significant incidents. Sentences and visions here dissolve one into each other, as did the Self of the two artists during a two years journey, where circumstances and situations melt into a non-ordinary quotidian. The collected texts are in English, Spanish, Indigenous Selk’Nam and Hindi. Handwritten Haiku and travel notes are also in German and Italian, the languages of the two artists’ countries of origin. Together with sketches and images, they become witnesses of a variety of events in progress, circulating as magmatic matter like it might be in an actual logbook of adventurous sailors of the 21st century. Together with the performances’ left-overs, they tell of a nomad couple of Performance artists, who wander for unknown places, who watch at themselves as perfect strangers drawn to stop by, in the moments of adding their stories to others, because stories, sooner or later, are always somehow to be told. Unrevealing and revealing is accretive: encountered signs, layered over ruins, the dust of history, a lived reality always floating between harshness and beauty, and the immaculate frozen environments are peeled off one by one, to be reconnected and set forth into a structure aimed to be tasted intimately as a fragmented experienced time report: dissected shadows, which in the logbook and through the art actions consumed items struggle to become somehow permanent, objective traces at least. In taking on the problems of the material, the symbolic, and the artistic labour as production in the context of the ‘intermediate’, VestAndPage saw the possibility of creating a further hybrid art-object (the Logbook) that could link the daily report of their experience as individuals, and the actual work in progress of the movie making, thereby giving a global significance to the entire situation by ordering an exhibition where the various left over gravitate virtually around it. Focusing on the possibilities of going beyond the binary of production vs. consumption in artistic, cultural, private and social spheres, the Logbook is thought to be a tool to explore the potential of the modes to appropriate and reconfigure the contemporary, as it means for the two artists. Hence, it may also work in terms of re-conceptualizing the cultural form of Performance art, and actualize its productive dimension as contemporary artistic processed discipline or, better, practice. To address the problem of artistic vision in today's world of the vanishing past and unsteady future through the ephemeral dimension of Performance art, for VestAndPage means also to enhance the interdependences existing between their human senses and the world that they explore, defuse, and reinvent through their own specific artistic approach. Similarly to the movie trilogy, where they developed their site-specific performances, based on the analysis of the cultural heritage and specific environmental features of their host venues, sin∞fin – The Logbook and Left Over’s Installation exhibition – as already conceived project, thus yet to be done – wishes to respond to the artists’ urgency to connote a lived experience with the prodromes of the metaphor, here intended - as Borges stated - a form of economizing the expression, a cognitive activity, structure of the thought, and the crucial moment of action. All this attempting to de-contextualize and re-contextualize contexts and propositions, seeking to contribute to the formation of a new language that would make a whatsoever art report in general more meaningful and consequential for the fruiters. In this still-to-be-published project, VestAndPage, starting from the idea of the crisis in their consciousness (individual/social) as contemporary individuals and artists, which investigate the ongoing corrosion of the notion of production, have taken into account sin∞fin – The Logbook and Left Over’s Installation exhibition as a possible integrative moment inside their creative course, aimed to valorise its significance amidst the contemporary artistic process of a Performance art movie making and their individual and social urgency as today artists.
The idea of making a Logbook that digs into the core of the poiesis of VestAndPage’s recently edited movie trilogy sin∞fin - The Movie (hybrid opera combining Performance art and filmmaking), as cornerstone of an exhibition installation of various original movie performances left over, arouse from the necessity to present a structured - though fragmented - documentation of the work in progress in its various phases. This to give evidence to the project’s intimate fabric, while offering at the same time an opportunity to visitors and readers to navigate across this complex artistic exploration (physical, mental and spiritual) through a multiplicity of details of the artist duo’s investigational creative process, which led to the realization of the movie trilogy itself. The realization and production of the trilogy film project sin∞fin - The Movie took more than two years. It has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of various international institutions, which co-produced the single trilogy episodes in site. Making expressly a site-responsive Performance art movie project, Performance artist, writer and filmmaker duo VestAndPage had therefore the opportunity to travel in faraway, to hardly visited/accessible parts of the world, to conceive and set site-specific performances, finally ordered in likewise lucid dreaming flux and memories sequences: actual content of the movie trilogy. The gathered, capillary documentation of this two years’ diving work has consequently been thought to be structured and organized as a grid to precisely map the two artists’ creative path, at the same time unveiling the processed, performative itinerary lived by duo on the boarders of their bodies, which determined their art actions. The idea of mapping their experience on different levels of reading/fruition, took form since the very beginning, while configuring the different steps of the work in progress of the movie trilogy, and it has developed concretely while living in places such as the Southern Andes, Straight of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia Glaciers, Valley of Kashmir, Himalaya, River Ganges sources, Delhi’s Basti, Chawri Bazar, Qtub Minar, and finally at the Antarctic Peninsula. The report, materially consisting of collected recorded readings, dialogues, and soliloquies, writings, sketches, footages and photos, tells of the travelled distances, which have been transformed by VestAndPage into operational data: shifts of perceptions, reactions to weather conditions, unpredictable encounters, events and significant incidents. Sentences and visions here dissolve one into each other, as did the Self of the two artists during a two years journey, where circumstances and situations melt into a non-ordinary quotidian. The collected texts are in English, Spanish, Indigenous Selk’Nam and Hindi. Handwritten Haiku and travel notes are also in German and Italian, the languages of the two artists’ countries of origin. Together with sketches and images, they become witnesses of a variety of events in progress, circulating as magmatic matter like it might be in an actual logbook of adventurous sailors of the 21st century. Together with the performances’ left-overs, they tell of a nomad couple of Performance artists, who wander for unknown places, who watch at themselves as perfect strangers drawn to stop by, in the moments of adding their stories to others, because stories, sooner or later, are always somehow to be told. Unrevealing and revealing is accretive: encountered signs, layered over ruins, the dust of history, a lived reality always floating between harshness and beauty, and the immaculate frozen environments are peeled off one by one, to be reconnected and set forth into a structure aimed to be tasted intimately as a fragmented experienced time report: dissected shadows, which in the logbook and through the art actions consumed items struggle to become somehow permanent, objective traces at least. In taking on the problems of the material, the symbolic, and the artistic labour as production in the context of the ‘intermediate’, VestAndPage saw the possibility of creating a further hybrid art-object (the Logbook) that could link the daily report of their experience as individuals, and the actual work in progress of the movie making, thereby giving a global significance to the entire situation by ordering an exhibition where the various left over gravitate virtually around it. Focusing on the possibilities of going beyond the binary of production vs. consumption in artistic, cultural, private and social spheres, the Logbook is thought to be a tool to explore the potential of the modes to appropriate and reconfigure the contemporary, as it means for the two artists. Hence, it may also work in terms of re-conceptualizing the cultural form of Performance art, and actualize its productive dimension as contemporary artistic processed discipline or, better, practice. To address the problem of artistic vision in today's world of the vanishing past and unsteady future through the ephemeral dimension of Performance art, for VestAndPage means also to enhance the interdependences existing between their human senses and the world that they explore, defuse, and reinvent through their own specific artistic approach. Similarly to the movie trilogy, where they developed their site-specific performances, based on the analysis of the cultural heritage and specific environmental features of their host venues, sin∞fin – The Logbook and Left Over’s Installation exhibition – as already conceived project, thus yet to be done – wishes to respond to the artists’ urgency to connote a lived experience with the prodromes of the metaphor, here intended - as Borges stated - a form of economizing the expression, a cognitive activity, structure of the thought, and the crucial moment of action. All this attempting to de-contextualize and re-contextualize contexts and propositions, seeking to contribute to the formation of a new language that would make a whatsoever art report in general more meaningful and consequential for the fruiters. In this still-to-be-published project, VestAndPage, starting from the idea of the crisis in their consciousness (individual/social) as contemporary individuals and artists, which investigate the ongoing corrosion of the notion of production, have taken into account sin∞fin – The Logbook and Left Over’s Installation exhibition as a possible integrative moment inside their creative course, aimed to valorise its significance amidst the contemporary artistic process of a Performance art movie making and their individual and social urgency as today artists.