DUAS MARGENS (ÍNDICO), 2012
2 VIDEOS
SIMULTANEOUS PROJECTION 60’ LOOP (LEFT)VIDEO BY RUNO LAGOMARSINO RECORDED AT BELLE MARE, MAURITIUS, APRIL 13 OF, 2012, FROM 11:00 TILL 12PM (RIGHT)VIDEO BY DAVID WELLS RECORDED AT PERTH, AUSTRÁLIA, ON APRIL 13, 2012, FROM 15:00 TILL 16PM
“DUAS MARGENS” IS A PROJECT INITIATED IN 2003, IN COLLABORATION WITH TWO ARTISTS: WAGNER MORALES (BRASIL) AND SOFIA PONTE (PORTUGAL). FOLLOWING SUCCINCT INSTRUCTIONS, EACH ARTIST RECORDED THE WATER OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN REACHING THE SHORE AT A BEACH OF THEIR CHOICE IN THE COUNTRY WHERE THEY LIVED; SIMULTANEOUSLY. THE ONE-HOUR LONG RECORDING WAS THEN MADE AT THE SAME TIME BUT AT DIFFERENT HOURS. IN 2005, AFTER HAVING PUT MY FEET IN THE PCIFIC OCEAN COLD WATER FOR THE FIRST TIME, I MADE A SECOND VERSION (WHICH BECAME A SECOND PART) OF THIS PROJECT. I THEN ASKED HELMUT BATISTA (BRASIL, AT THAT MOMENT IN CHILE) AND ERIC HOLOWACS (NEW ZELAND) TO DO THE SAME, BUT FOCUSING ON THIS OTHER OCEAN. IN THIS SECOND DIPTHYC THE TIME DIFFERENCE IS MUCH ACCENTUATED, THE NEW ZELAND IMAGES WERE TAKEN DURING SUN SET, WHILE THE IMAGES IN THE CHILEAN COAST TAKE PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. AFTER THAT, A THIRD PART OF THIS WORLD-WIDE DRAWING BECAME NECESSARY, BUT IT WAS ONLY IN 2012 THAT I COULD MAKE A NEW PAIR OF VIDEOS T OPPOSITE MARGINS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN. RUNO LAGOMARSINO FILMED FROM MAURITIUS, IN AFRICA, AND DAVID WELLS, FROM PERTH, IN AUSTRALIA.
