ECO CHAMPER
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Video-sound installation entitled Echo Champer (2017)Video-sound installation entitled Echo Champer (2017)
The artists Cynthia Gerothanasiou, Ioanna Kazaki, Stelios Dexis, Myrto Vounatsou and the group's guest Panagiotis Triantafyllidis transform a semantically charged material, rubble, into a contradictory, ambiguous space between reality and dream, truth, illusion, illusion and deception.
The disintegrated ruins are the building materials of a multi-level sculpture, on which the carefree movement of small sheep is perpetually projected, while at the same time the melody of a child's lullaby is heard. The artists utilize the combination of the traditional symbolism of the elements of their work with the inherent potential of visual and sonic repetitiveness to "envelop" and "hypnotize" the viewer in order to comment on the practice of systems of power to put citizens in a "passive" mode, i.e. to avoid any notion of risk. The media term echo chamber refers to that condition where information constructed and manipulated by power is reproduced, homogenized, accepted without critical filtering and eventually established as correct and universal by means of 'bombastic' repetition by the mass media. Essentially, the play deals with the contradictory nature of "risk-taking" in its most realistic, contemporary version, in an age when truth and untruth are indiscriminately alternated by power according to its purposes. The apparently safe or unsafe everyday life is to a huge extent a product of the "processing" and the determination of the consciousness of the masses by the systems of power. The idea that "the search for truth requires risk" is not a philosophical one, but a fundamental principle of the protection of basic human rights.
The ugliest implication is the relativization of the concepts of freedom to influence and determine the outcome of battles through control.
Constructive ability of modern society to embody Use of stereotypical images and sounds, e.g. Sheep, rubble, lullabies, we create an installation
investigating on the one hand whether in today's culture it is ultimately safe to "take no risks" and to what extent it is allowed or encouraged by the system.
Keywords:
Political-social commentary, hypnotic process, nightmare, contradiction, the consciousness of danger through its opposite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)
23-26/11/2017 2η ART THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, ΔΕΘ HELEXPO Περίπτερο 38, Ελλάδα. Συμμετοχή με την Ομαδική Video Mapping Projection Installation- με τίτλο Eco Chamber, 2017 στο πλαίσιο του Project VLAVES-Εndangered II
Στη βιντεο-ηχητική εγκατάσταση με τίτλο Echo Champer (2017), οι καλλιτέχνες Σύνθια Γεροθανασίου, Στέλιος Ντεξής, Μυρτώ Βουνάτσου, Ιωάννα Καζάκη, και ο καλεσμένος της ομάδας Παναγιώτης Τριανταφυλλίδης μετατρέπουν ένα νοηματικά φορτισμένο υλικό, τα μπάζα, σε έναν αντιφατικό, αμφιλεγόμενο χώρο μεταξύ πραγματικότητας και ονείρου, αλήθειας, απατηλότητας, ψευδαίσθησης και παραπλάνησης. Τα διαλυμένα ερείπια αποτελούν τα δομικά υλικά ενός πολυεπίπεδου γλυπτού, πάνω στο οποίο προβάλλεται αέναα η επικίνδυνα ανέμελη κίνηση μικρών προβάτων, ενώ ταυτόχρονα ακούγεται η μελωδία ενός παιδικού νανουρίσματος. Οι καλλιτέχνες αξιοποιούν τον συνδυασμό του παραδοσιακoύ συμβολισμού των στοιχείων του έργου τους με την εγγενή δυνατότητα της οπτικής και ηχητικής επαναληπτικότητας για «εγκοίμηση» και «ύπνωση» του θεατή ως σχόλιο της πρακτικής των συστημάτων εξουσίας να θέτουν τους πολίτες σε μια παθητική λειτουργία για αποφυγή οποιασδήποτε έννοιας «διακινδύνευσης»…