TOTEM a place of contradictions 2009
video sound installation

Totem is an entity of protection that watches over the unity of a group of people such as a family, tribe or a clan.
Totem as a place of affirmation, as a position against everything that disturbs the unity.
Totem is a force of multiple faces, a force of transmutation.
Totem acts in a space of disorder to reestablish the order.Totem as a state of exception. 
Totem is a rhythmic, a sonic, melodic and persistent space.
Totem is instinctive and symbolic.
Totem is between sense and non-sense, language and non-language, rational and irrational.
Totem as a place of contradictions.

Concept: Marcos Simoes 
Video: Marcelo Mardones 
Music: Christophe Albertijn 
Costume design: Patricia Fernandez 
With the support of: EVE VZW, Bains Connective, Monty and detheatermaker

en français

TOTEM - un lieu de contradictions
installation vidéo/son 

Totem est une entité de protection qui surveille l'unité d'un groupe, comme une famille, une tribu ou un clan.
Totem comme lieu d'affirmation, comme positionnement contre ce qui peut perturber l'unité.
Totem est la force de multiples faces, une force de transmutation.
Totem agi dans un espace de désordre pour établir l'ordre. Totem comme état d'exception.
Totem est un espace rythmique, sonore, mélodique et persistant.
Totem est instinctive et symbolique.
Totem est entre le sens et le non-sens, entre le langage et le non langage, rationnelle et irrationnelle.
Totem est un lieu de contradictions.

​concept: Marcos Simoes
vidéo: Marcelo Mardones
musique: Christophe Albertijn
costumes: Patricia Fernandez
Avec le soutien de: EVE VZW, Bains Connective, Monty and detheatermaker

THE INSTALLATION IN THE SPACE 

                         click in the images for the video

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Composed by 1+4 videos with a surrounding sound.
The 4 monitors are build up on top of each other as a totem.
The 5th video is separated from the totem,
located in the left front side of the space.

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1. a turning head making faces
​2. hands tapping on the belly, on the ass
3. entire body moving, and an inverted head making faces
​4. feets and a stick tapping on the floor 
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​5. A face in the act of looking.
A face that sometimes is surprised, disgusted,
laughing, curious, attracted, without understanding, ...
A face that travels through different emotions of the perception of something that shifts in between the familiar and the uncanny.

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