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A long while is an experimental video work that employs an editing methodology based on the idea of reclaiming leap seconds established by our institutionalized regulation of time. The precision of modern time calculation has led to a discrepancy in measured values. Hence, a leap second needs to be periodically added, functioning as a suspended moment, while we wait for the earth to catch up. As a reflection of this, the composition, decomposition, and re-composition of the video’s narrative is performed by a metronome that follows a 37 degree/second subtractive structure.
A decolonial re-narration unfolds as the artists appropriate the two characters from Hans Holbein painting “The Ambassadors”. They impersonate a journey through an atemporal ocean, subjected to the monotony of sea travel and a heavy feeling of boredom. The work ponders on the weight placed by western society on the precision of time keeping to sustain efficiency and productivity.
Place and time: Open sea, June 30th 2020.
Image: A render image of a reflection on time.
Victor Artiga Rodriguez, Elshan Azadi
Victor Artiga Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the convergence of poetry, the body and digital technologies. Through performance and video, he creates situations where new forms of narration can occur. He is currently based in Bremen, Germany.
Elshan Azadi is a video artist working in the era of digital image-making, animation, researching for innovating ways of storytelling through algorithms, frames, and appropriation of language and folktales.