Through time, Saint and Apparitions have been doomed to stillness, in some cases the subjects have been exposed through more than a thousand years of inert fixation! Performing Pictures believes it’s time to set them free, one by one and motion by motion. This is a process where nouns are replaced with verbs - as well as mention transforms to activity.
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MOVEMENT NO. 6: TO CARRY A CHILD
St. Christopher - he who carries the little child over troubled waters. Not only the weight of the world but also of its Creator is put on his shoulders. St. Christopher holds patronage of things related to travel and travelers. Records of him are found in the Golden Legends, a remnant of folk narratology from the Middle Ages.
The St. Christopher Cabinet is a responsive video-installation in an antique hand-crafted Indian shrine. The shrine is equipped with a computer screen, a hidden computer, micro-electronics and sensor. The installation runs on Performing Pictures’ software VOS-Play.
MOVEMENT NO 7: TO APPEAR
As Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared on the cloak of Juan Diego, this miracle captured the true meaning of an original image. Everything else becomes a copy. This in fact makes life a little bit easier for an artist. Only God (and the Mother of God) can be the true originators of things. As humans we are originals incapable of being truly original left with the (liberating) act of copying eachother and copying the work of the Creator. Now, there is a finer word for copying and that is interpretation.
This is Performing Pictures' interpretation of the Appearance.
The Virgen-nicho is a responsive video-installation in a hand-crafted shrine of cedar wood, painted with egg-tempera, 12 k gold leaf plating and gold-plated vitrage frame. The shrine is equipped with a computer screen, a hidden computer, micro-electronics and sensor. The installation runs on Performing Pictures’ software VOS-Play.
