1. La inminente sensación de colapso social en las instalaciones de video de Aernout Mik.
- Author
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García Molina, Ana Esther
- Abstract
The cognitive starting point in the video sculptural work of Dutch artist Aernout Mik's is the use of movement in the Doppler effect, the division of the screen into two planes, the pause and repetition of images full of bodies in a large variety. This creates a volumetric and overwhelming perception in the interactor, since as soon as we enter one of these places, the collapse of the social order that those images project becomes evident, and at the same time we are subtracted from any sound, as a mechanism of representation of a political thought (discipline and punish), which teaches us how to understand things, even when these are displayed without voice. Many of these museisable places seem deliberately sculpted in favor of the spectator, the spatial arrangement of images through the screens located in constant contact with the ground provide a round-trip tour, resulting in an imaginary scenario that is created with the action of walking it. That way, the mutual exchange between the audience and the piece of art make part of the curatorial commitment, since through artistic creation, shadows and light changes made by bodies in interaction with the images are generated, and this becomes a fundamental element of the assembly and the impact produced by such fact on the exhibition space. The possibility of reading the work of Mik from the foucauldian biopolitical proposal is a powerful tool to examine how is introduced in a staged way that which is not a game (fiction) at all, nor radical real violence, but rather abstract mechanisms of the functioning of power, represented through a proposal of video graphic scaling with curatorial intentions close to the sculptural installation, and that incisively projects bodies that act as infected agencies in a gray zone between the human and the animal; four of his most characteristic works under this conception of artist Aernout Mik will be the focus of reflection of this text: Raw Footage, 2006 (bi canal video installation with audio, documentary material), Training Ground, 2006 (bi canal video installation, two simultaneous makes), Schoolyard, 2009 (bi canal video installation), and Gluminosity, 2001 (single-channel video installation). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2014