Dana Sederowsky (Sweden)
300m3 Artspace Göteborg Sweden
"Special Announcements"
Video installations
April 30th - May 3rd 2009
Dana Sederowsky works with video performance and photography.
She is working with two ongoing projects.
The video performanceproject Special Announcements, which started in
2006 and the photography and video project Dana Aid started in 1998.
As an artist she works solely with herself and her own body. It is her
determined choice to be autonomous and solitary.
Nothing in her work is accidental. It it calculated and strictly
directed. Sederowsky investigates language through
linguistic excercises, speech-acts and fonological experiments, focusing
on the process of using speech and how words are delivered directly in
the face of the viewer. She investigates language not simply as a means
of communication but also as a poetic and formal device.
Special Announcements (2006)
5 sequences, each 02: 00 min
5 monitor videoinstallation including from left to right:
Evolution
Politics
Religion
Doomsday
Solitude
In the work Special Announcements the viewer meets a naked face that is
situated in a black void. The character asks for attention
and thoughtfulness about life itself.
The matter of language is thoroughly investigated and the performance
is strictly directed. The figure is an esoteric whose eyes are closed,
humanity does not seem to be worthy of a single look.
An introvert character in contact with the soul that does not show any
outgoing emotions. From this oracle-like position it speaks in a
parallel manner as if it seems to be in dialogue with itself.
Special Announcements Edition Four (2009)
Videoprojection
Special Announcements Edition Four is a continuation of the projects
evergoing research within linguistics and speech-acts.
In this edition the speech-acts emphasize the linguistic turns that are
being delivered by a freaky puppet-like individual. The character seems
trapped as it leans its head from side to side as a pendulum
manipulating the viewer with both its moves and also through how the
chryptic phrases are being pronounced.
Appendix
The character is in a double sense dreanched in tears.
A professional weeper who suppressed bemoans whatever you wish.
