Foreign Correspondence

Foreign Correspondence - a work for sound and image, installation and performance.

new videoclips from Instants Chavirés performance with Gert-Jan Prins 15th June 2005 here>

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Foreign Correspondence is an ongoing project exploring arbitrary and absolute links between sound and light/image, liveness and playback. It began as an installation at Instants Chavirés in autumn 2004.

"We were interested in the absolute interference of sound and image. That's when we realised that there didn't have to be a camera - a voltage, a frequency could create an image."

Steina Vasulka, 1978

"The new images no longer have any outside (out-of-field), any more than they are internalized in a whole...They are the object of a perpetual reorganization, in which a new image can arise from any point whatever of the preceding image... the screen itself, even if it keeps a vertical position by convention, no longer seems to refer to the human posture, like a window or a painting, but rather constitutes a table of information, an opaque surface on which are inscribed 'data', information replacing nature, and the brain-city, the third eye, replacing the eyes of nature. Finally, sound acheiving an autonomy which increasingly lends it the status of image, the two images, sound and visual enter into complex relations with neither subordination or commensurability... "

Gilles Deleuze, from: Cinema 2: The Time-Image 1989