• Non c’è suspance, né morale, né causa ed effetti
  • TitoloNon c’è suspance, né morale, né causa ed effetti
  • Autore Diego Zuelli  
  • Anno 2010
  • Classificazione Video art
  • Durata 00:12:30
  • Edizione 1/3+ap
  • Materiale video
Descrizione
The title of this work is a quotation from Slaughterhouse Five, a novel by Kurt Vonnegut. "There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, nor causes, no effects." This sentence can be used as a leitmotiv for the biological and natural world, because of the way it manifests and develops itself. The dual channel video installation emphasizes on the waiting and impending awareness that nature can arouse sometimes. Often feelings are left out but, as a matter of fact they are always perceivable as long as nature is present in our lives. It answers only to randomness and to its own needs, it's erratic and unpredictable, incumbent on us (from Latin, present participle of incumbere, to lean upon). The video installation is staged in two rooms, connected by a staircase. The soundtrack of the slow asteroid rotation on the first floor is a series of scientific sound recordings taken with underwater hydrophones in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In the basement floor, the audio track is composed of re-processed radio waves recorded by NASA deep-space probes orbiting around remote planets of our Solar System. The first video has high-angled shots, from Space to Earth, showing various cuts from the Earth surface, while the basement video is composed of low angle shots, looking upwards, from the Earth to the sky. On walking down the stairs that connect the floors, the audio tracks merge and blend together, so that, at least ideally, these two opposite shots intersect each other. The deep-water recordings used here are known because they haven’t been identified yet. These sounds are often captured by hydrophones placed at great distances from one another, even at opposite ends of the Pacific Ocean. In time, this has led to assumptions on the large-scale origin of this still unknown phenomenon. On the contrary, the radio emissions recorded near Jupiter and Saturn by Voyager and Cassini deep-space probes were identified with utter precision: they had to do with natural events such as aurora borealis or passages through the magnetic field of a planet, comparable to known terrestrial phenomena. (from the artist website)