Taťána Jiříková

Česká sekce INSEA
Jun 30
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12.7 The Art Series – DECHEM [With a Breath] (Art Project)

Taťána Jiříková – Primary Art School, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic – virtual

Abstract:

“For all the truth in the world, but a little nickel of silence if you will. There is a moment that halves the landscape, a humble moment when one of us breathes... ” (Jan Skácel, Moments) The art series Dechem [With a Breath] is a kind of intersection and a way of perceiving breath not only in its commonplace and natural necessity of life, but also as a beautiful and fragile possibility that reveals and offers a space to search for and discover forms in the world of artistic expression.

On this journey of our breath, we “met” Adriena Šimotová and encountered words from Jan Skácel’s poems. We perceived and recorded our breath in time; we “materialized” our images with our breath, or we created them in such a way that the “breath” of a given place permeated them, or the observer themselves brought them to life and movement with their breath.

Over the course of our work, we increasingly felt the need to perforate our artworks or their surfaces in various ways, to scratch or directly reveal and use materials that themselves create an impression of airiness and the possibility of air or breath passing through them (e.g., netting). Breath thus became both inspiration and medium, allowing us to penetrate a world that harbors new approaches and perspectives – accompanied by an element of chance, improvisation, or an attempt to “breathe” new meaning into things and events.

Taťána Jiříková – The Art Series – DECHEM [With a Breath] (Art Project)

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The Audiovisual Score

Can the score be played visually? This audiovisual experimental composition is an effort to capture the visual-artistic level of the heard music projected on the background of a sheet of music (i.e. the score), which allows it to be played out visually and reveals to the viewer, instead of looking at the classical notation of the score, its completely new visual form.

Finding new approaches in the field of art, intermingling musical and artistic levels, crossing mutual boundaries by way of video art experiment...