No. 1397
"The Uneasiness in front of a Mirror Image"
Artist: Bojan Štokelj
Title: The Uneasiness in front of a Mirror Image
Duration: 48:28
Year: 1991
Genre: Documentary video / Performance
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MOREThe video documented the performance The Uneasiness in front of a Mirror Image (CRMK - Shelter, Šempeter near Nova Gorica, 18.1.1991), where he collaborated with Ema Kugler, Marko Košnik / Egon March Institute in Tanja Zgonc. The performance began as a counterpoint to the ritual movement of live actors and stationary sculptures in a glass cage (mirror system). Later it was launched by a performer in costume from the mirror system which reflected the space with viewers in a circular movement. We can read the mirror as a real object and as a surface that reflects the images that capture it and inevitably become its part. The light beams from reflectors and reflections in reflective surfaces of glass and mirrors were multiplied in a pulsating image with the dynamic movement of actors and rotating sculptures, and the viewer was trapped in mutual relations of appearance and materiality, alive and mechanical. (Source: Barbara Borčić, Sled nelagodja, v: Potovanje po delu Bojana Štoklja, exhibition catalogue, 2007)