5/26/2023 0 Comments Jumpcut film![]() ![]() The dynamic and changeable elements in this episode ironically juxtapose the values and identities of stigmatised communities against those of the dominant sphere. In “Them,” the third instalment of the series, mainstream spaces are subverted by behaviour codes that menace the established social order when three drag stars take over popular streets of Hollywood. ![]() That is to say, since they are empty spaces, free from caged-like structures, they foster environments in which endless formulas allow for authentic multiplicity, through digital manifestations.īut not only digital spaces that are dissociated from our immediate reality are fierce in overthrowing power structures. Jump Cut #2 © Marie Davidson, Sabrina Ratté, Dana GingrasĪs these spaces follow their own rhythms, new intuitions and illusions narrate the reasoning for the existence and qualities of the elements that inhabit them. While the human body becomes an instrument for ongoing deconstruction, reconstruction and transformation, space and time enact notions on their own, too, inviting viewers to be intuitive about their dimensions and delimitations. In the second episode of the series (Jump Cut #2), the body is presented as a living sculpture: 3D scanning techniques disassemble the body to the rhythmic twitches of electronic musician Marie Davidson. These digital environments reform not only the world we inhabit - its topical elements, textures, composition, rhythm - but the criteria that define concepts of space, time, and body, and the way they interrelate. Jump Cut #2 © Marie Davidson, Sabrina Ratté, Dana Gingras Jump Cut, taking part in an exhibition dedicated to experimental art and music, showcases environments where corporeal and sensorial realities are morphed, and introduces territories where body, sculpturing, time structures, and values meet in unparalleled, virtual environments. Jump Cut, a series of six episodes curated by Dana Gingras of Animals of Distinction, and recently exhibited at the CTM Festival in Berlin, addresses the relation between space and body, or as Gingras mentions, “bodies that inhabit spaces, and spaces that inhabit bodies.” While our cognitive ability allows us to travel back to memories, make projections for the future, lure in fantasies, and imagine non-existing landscapes and situations, digital technologies are rendering visual registrations of alternate worlds. ![]()
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