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Interventory Memoir

Artist: Urban Belina

Category: Video

Description: Video is based on the occurrence of intervention in public space as part of Medeja Blossoming project directed by Saša Rakef on Patossofiranje festival in Smederevo. Envisioning mnemonic depiction, creation of memory through memorisation of fragmentary scenes, essential narration procedures follow non-linear time-line construction and repetitive images of short inserts, all being used with originally recorded soundscape material. The idea is to depict the fragmentary existence of contemporary individual and the irrational selection of memorised images in the context of image-based mass media society, the society of spectacle in which meaning has been hollowed out and perversely disembodied.

a r t i f i c e:The artifice of this form has been developed from a mistake, which often causes unexpected emergence of creative strategies. The mistake in this case has been, that my art partner, who had been filming the intervention in public space, is completely unskilled in camera handling and the result was a disastrous bumpy and shaky raw video material. After contemplating what can be done with such a piece I decided not to use it as archive material, but to rather connect it with other field of my art practice and to try to relate it with my research on the fragmentation of memory in information and image over-saturated contemporary reality. I had carefully selected sections of the video that have emotional value for me as one of the creators of this public intervention and combined manipulated pieces with anonymous heads, the head being dived and the ticking head. The first one actually belonging to art partner with whom we have devised this public intervention and the second one being mine. I perceive the finished piece as an intermingled collage of memories: of the physical memory of my art partner, of my long-term memory that is supported by emotional involvement and of the memory of mini-dv tape. The combination feeds the creative process of montage and results in rather chaotic, aggressive and fragmentary piece that is open to interpretations. Is it of female power? Is it of stereotypes? Is it of path? In circular, linear or multidimensional time? I like to open questions and stir certain irrational reactions regardless of the side they land on. And still, the question of what personal memory actually is remains open and will remain open in the crossovers of multiplied subjectivities.

Used Tool: Vimeo.

Language: English.