9493
2011
9493 (2011), video still
"I believe in art as the affirmation of meaning, and as a full confrontation with the here and now. 9493 is part of the VideoRhizome series, developed since January 2002. I believe the notion of 'rhizome' is not complete in the fields of botany or philosophy, nor can it be neutralized within the scope of shared evidences.
The making of the series allows one to realize, IN ACT, how philosophical categories and scientific functions take place and come into being, dramatized into simultaneous aesthetical variations. My responsibility is to keep seeking encounters, to be affected, and to give back such affections.
In the specific case of 9493, I address a certain human indifference to an established and shared order that moves parallel to nature’s fundamental indifference towards man. Perhaps going camping and witnessing a storm in Iceland is as mundane as going to a sunny beach in Rio de Janeiro.
In this piece, there's a boy focused on his game and completely oblivious to this reality which is common to him. By the same token, the storm moves and intensifies, notwithstanding the boy’s actions and reactions. What I am interested in is how both indifferences are not conflicting, and do not contradict one another at any moment.
Being indifferent to nature’s indifference is perhaps crucial to produce meaning out of the inconsistence of reality or chaos. And I believe that this is the key issue I attempt to point out with this piece. No matter how we must deal with the political and social order in which we live, at the same time, we must invent or build a resistance against these established, shared domains."
Marcellvs L. in a statement to PLATFORM:VB (October 2013)
9493 (2011) | Marcellvs L.
Video installation | 11’16”, stereo, color, 16 : 9, loop
Testimony Marcellvs L | 18th Festival
“Everyone has traded God for facts.” Facts simply rectify that which someone is already expecting, according to the artist. He also discusses the series he has been developing for over 10 years – the video 9493 is a part – on the subject of indifference
Sátántangó's trailer (1994) | Béla Tarr
"I have been watching Belá Tarr’s lengthy films and listening to the work of the Austrian experimental musician Rudolf Eber / Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, their precise, compact sound collages", explains Marcellvs L.
“Other creators with whom I have had contact as of late: the German philosopher Marcus Steinweg, the writer, philosopher and German musician Carl-friedrich Claus, the also writer and advocate of neo-paganism Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson and the Brasilian poet Antônio Bráulio Vilhena.”
“Among the musicians and composers, the Danish Henning Christiansen, the North Americans David Tudor and Marc Zeier / G*Park, the French Ghédalia Tazartès, Galina Ustvolskaya, from Russia, Patrick Kosk, from Finland, Walter Marchetti, Marcus Schmickler, the musician and poet Henri Chopin, Jani Christou, Greek musician and composer, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German avant-garde composer and the composer of electronic music Daniel Löwenbrück.”
"I have also been in contact with the Czech artist and theorist Milan Knížák, Wolf Vostell, German artist that joined the Fluxus group, and the artists Florian Hecker and Raymond Dijkstra, that work with music", says the artist.
The German art and poetry label Tochnit Aleph, the cultural center in Berlin dedicated to sound arts Rumpsti Pumsti and the NK, a German organization dedicated to experimental music, are among Marcellvs L.'s musical references. [eng]
Marcellvs L.'s website.