Piece for Cinematic Instruments & Feedback Loops #1 (2023)
Medium
Non-medium cinema, sound performance
Materials
Paper, plastic straws, electronics, magnifying glasses, light, microphone, tape, amplifier
Dimensions
Variable
Collaborators
Faruk Šavanović: cinematic instruments
Cristóbal García Belmont: tape machine, microphone, electronics
Description
Piece for Cinematic Instruments & Feedback Loops #1 is the first part of an ongoing dialogue between Bosnian artist Faruk Šavanović and Peruvian artist Cristóbal García Belmont. These pieces explore ways to challenge the distribution of time-based mediums, such as cinema, sound, and music.
Through the chaotic casting of shadows by Šavanović's cinematic instruments and García Belmont’s imitation of movement with a microphone in an amplified room, the artists aim to create a non-medium, non-distributable, unreproducible cinema. The piece is heavily inspired by the principles of animation that strive to imitate life, as well as sound reproduction principles by which the machine mimics organic functions until its eventual degradation. The performers engage in intricate feedback loops, generating unreproducible noise using shadows, microphones, amplifiers, and magnetic tapes.
The first iteration of the piece premiered during the 2023 lecture series at the Academy of Fine Arts, Music, Film, and Theatre of the University of Sarajevo.
