Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
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Monday, January 19, 2015
PUMA: Films4Peace
Films4Peace commissioned by PUMA
“This video isn't just about peace in itself, it is more about the
process of getting there. I wanted to create, rather solicit, a slow
time-inspired unraveling of the identities -- something that fascinates
me -- that weigh heavily on us and perhaps our daily performances as
people. That is what the most recent avatar in my latest body of work
does… in a loop. “The Future White Woman of Azania” is a character made
up of liquid paint filled balloons and resembles a science diagram. I
wanted the action to revolve around two acts: that of engaging in the
catharsis of walking and that of “weeping” -- a purging that here is
represented by the popping. Enter “The Flower of Azania“, who in stark
contrast has the appearance of a gestating flower, accumulating scale
and animation. Both these scenes are brought together by the gong that
encourages an engagement with these two different movements that are
both a good Purge.”- Athi-Patra Ruga, Cape Town 2013 (c)
About Films4Peace:
FILMS4PEACE is a short film commission curated by Mark Coetzee, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA. This unique project features 27 of today’s most innovative contemporary artists visually interpreting the subject of peace.
These engaging works have been screened at hundreds of cultural and educational venues globally and seen by 19 million people.Film and video is now an integral part of art production. This exhibition of films4peace inaugurates a dedicated programme, the Zeitz MOCAA Centre for the Moving Image, that will focus specifically on cutting edge developments in, and discourses around the moving image.
In 2017 Zeitz MOCAA will move into the historic grain silo buildingatthe V&A Waterfront where the stateof the art Zeitz MOCAA Centre for the Moving Image is being constructed.
Athi-Patra Ruga is one of the 27 artists with video at this exhibition, stop by at Zietz MOCCAA from the 3rd of December 2014 to the 1st of February 2015.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
... the body in question series.
ATHI-PATRA RUGA / THE BODY IN QUESTION IV: LA MAMMA MORTA
THE BODY IN QUESTION IV: LA MAMMA MORTA
IN 2008, RUGA WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE HEBBEL AM UFER THEATRES TO DO A SERIES OF PERFORMANCES, WHICH GAVE BIRTH TO THE BODY IN QUESTION SERIES.
“I HAD BEEN TOYING WITH THE IDEA OF MAKING A MEMENTO MORI FOR A DEAD MOTHER WITHOUT BEING SMARMY, ‘EK SÊ’. I SUMMONED THE SKILLS OF GREEK BARITONE/FILM MAKER TELEMACHOS ALEXIOU TO COLLABORATE IN RESCORING AND PERFORMING THE ARIA LA MAMMA MORTA.
I THEN WENT AHEAD TO CREATE THE CHARACTER, MODELING IT ON A FAMOUS MARIA CALLAS PORTRAIT.
MY ORIGINAL GOAL WAS TO USE THE RECURRING THEME OF DISEMBODIMENT, TOGETHER WITH EMBODIED IMAGES OF DISLOCATION TO CREATE AN ACCESSIBLE WORK THAT INTERROGATES IDEAS OF HIV/AIDS TO EVINCE THE CONSTRUCT OF HYPER-FEMININITY.
© Athi-Patra Ruga and studio [2008]
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