///Circumvolution
Circumvolution is a presentation-based project exploring moving images, organized by Paadmaan projects and [SHIFT:ibpcpa]. This exchange focuses on the experience of the imaginary, using video art as a medium. The project facilitates communication and the development of artists between different cultures, presenting artworks that consider ideas surrounding various perceptions.
Vernissage: February 10, 2020, 6:30pm-8pm///February 11th – 13th, 11am-5pm
Live performance: February 10, 7:30pm
west court Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL.
Artists: Alma Sinai, Arash Mirhadi, Humle Rosenkvist, Milad Forouzande, Rebecca Salvadori, Shouka Karimi, Tosia Bargiełowska Johnsen.
In collaboration with:
[SHIFT:ibpcpa]
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh College of Art
Milad Forouzande /// Prologue_version_02
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This project, as a form of foresight and collective review, aims to explore gene promotion in various biological species. It serves as preparation and an endeavor to create a platform for describing and portraying new species with mutated genes. ~ 3-channel video installation ~
Tosia Bargiełowska Johnsen /// RHYTHM (performance)
RHYTHM is a movement practice which asserts that bodily engagement with music is essential for understanding grooves. It posits that experiencing rhythm fully is not through intellect or mere listening alone. Pulsations in music occur at various frequencies, each tempo allowing for different types of movement. At Circumvolution, I invited two other performers, Sophia Lycouris and Ayshia Taskin, to join me in adopting a different tempo (4:2:1 ratio) and following the rhythm. Exploring the concept of togetherness through practice and performance, I invited the ‘audience’ to join in through body language alone, allowing the grooves to permeate the room. Something organic and profound began to surface, beyond capture by video or photograph. In the future, RHYTHM will be attempted in different tempos and spaces, with diverse music and performers.
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Alma Sinaei /// The ideas in my works stem from a personal and interpersonal realm, but they speak out to different individuals and communities that undergo abrupt and suspended situations. While navigating among different narratives, my works negotiate the uncertain status and the constant state of hovering and flux taking place in their subjects’ surroundings.
Arash Mirhadi /// We are born, we walk, and if we are lucky, we die on a beautiful day.
Humle Rosenkvist /// The loop reflects itself, the image reflects a mirror, the mirror reflects a person.
Rebecca Salvadori /// In Salvadori’s new video “Empathy,” the author removes the sound completely, immersing the viewer in a deep space of silence. Silence is like another dimension that gives birth to personal empathy for everyone. Four scenes with close-ups of friends shot by Salvadori describe her empathy towards these people. Displaying their replicas in subtitles, the author creates or reinvents the existence of silence and speech.
Shouka Karimi /// It is the thought that brings us. The thought of a garden brings us to the garden. The thought of a shop brings us to the shop. However, within these thoughts is a secret deception. Have you never gone to a certain place thinking it would be good, only to find disappointment? These thoughts then are like a shroud, and within that shroud, someone is hidden. The day reality draws you and the shroud of thought disappears, there will be no disappointment. Then you will see reality as it is, and nothing more. … In reality, that which draws is a single thing. (Rumi, Fihi ma fihi)