Running time: 42mins in ten chapters
Production date: 2001
Format: SVCD/VCD/VHS/MiniDV/DVD

Being exposed to strong aspects, drive you to realize subtleness in a different

manner ….. viewing dimension ; maybe through another relentless aspect as it clears

To realize sensitive gestures lighter than touch, but deeper than expected, a notion

strives of well being

will you be there, have

you been there

where you were exposed

into the different notion

of space, sense

Through your very presence.

Through colour that uncovers the interchanges of place [language] / space [body] and transposes the time. The colour that manifests within deep blue, sininen, azure, konpeki which allows it, in a subtle manner, to animate the given realism into the processes of transformation, magic.

The surface of the Mechanisms of Exposure ~ Gestures of Pleasure may appear formal although when one experiences it there is also the desire for a narrative interpretation – the spectator wants to know what is happening, what story is taking place. Hence the exposure becomes an ongoing process – it can never be finished nor completely attained.

The exposure can also be peaceful and serene, calm and tranquil. It is the moment of perishing the form, becoming form, and transcending into another dimension…ultimately the exposure to the sensually intimate…the exposure to the gestures of pleasure.

Mechanisms of Exposure ~ Gestures of Pleasure is a digitally generated animation with incorporated digital sound files. The original format of the animation was uncompressed Targa Sequence NTSC. The animation was designed for viewing in large scale i.e. by LCD projector on a DAYLIGHT screen (DAYLIGHT because crystals in screen reproduce best colour to pixel alignment).

The audio is a stereo recording of 48khz 8bit sound.

Total playing time is 43 minutes in ten chapters.

To create an optimum physical space of Mechanisms of Exposure ~ Gestures of Pleasure the animation is endlessly played on a looping mode and the spectators seated on comfortable cushions.

Original online version (hosted at Rhizome ArtBase since 2001):
Mechanisms of Exposure ~ Gestures of Pleasure

Screenings

2002
NYIIFVF

New York International Independent Film Festival
Los Angeles, Laemmle Fairfax Theatre, premier 11th July 2002.
New York, Madison Square Gardens on September 18th.
Village East Cinema on September 19th.
Las Vegas, Brenden Theatres , November 22nd.

Selected for the inclusion and distribution of
Microcinema International,
San Francisco, U.S.A.
Tagawa International Short-film Matsuri #2
Tagawa City, Fukuoka-Ken, Kyushu, Japan.

Installations

Gallerie Espace Blanche Brussels

press
‘Le Soir‘
‘Commision en direct‘

Group exhibitions
2002
FILE 2002 Electronic Language International Festival/Symposium
Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
5° International Meeting of Experimental,
Sound and Visual Poetry
Centro Cultural Recoleta Junín 1930, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
IV Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and Centro Pablo
de la Torriente Brau,
Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba.
Catalogue of the Exhibition .pdf
VIDEO MEDEJA 2002
Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.