MORPH1NG_homage to Joseph Beuys

Lorenzo Budello
Luka Budello
esteban Vivaldi

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The metaphors of Joseph Beuys and the anthropomorphic ape emerging from a celestial background on incomplete crosses epitomize the sign of ratio, intuition, natural science and spirituality. It is a callback to become aware of one's freedom as the necessary device to reinvent oneself. ROOM15 reinterprets the way of the health-giving promise of art practice and the power of the universal human creativity. 'To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.' --Joseph Beuys. Lorenzo Budello explain the concept of transubstantiation - the transmutation of spirit and matter - through the symbols of human/animal duality according to the teaching of anthroposophy, which Beuys was fascinated from. The anthropomorphic ape transmutes in Joseph Beuys himself like a 'figures that pass freely from one level of existence to another.' In many philosophy animals are guardian spirits for shamans and ROOM15's approach suggest a journey, which take from the origin of life to the evolution of the human species. "How does it become a real live person?' which of the two is associated to ratio or intuition? Is it the anthropomorphic ape a metaphor of the human lack of creativity awareness, thus the incapacity to reinvent oneself in a continuum of intuitions and rationalization? Or perhaps, it alludes to the superior intuitive wisdom of animals? It is in this that we suggest the passage from one level of experience to another in a rather not literal approach. The video panel synthesize the idea of the "moulding" process of creativity as for the mean to become a real live person: Transmute from animal to human form, from raw material to spiritual essence, from a chaotic to a determined state through the "moulding" process of video; just as language provide a shape to ideas and resolve the way we accept and interact with one another. ?

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Video
• modern
• art
• videoart
• artist
• movie
• loop
• didgeridoo
• meditation

[monasman]

I believe this will happen soon, and there is a reason it has not yet. A depiction it can only be, for the innerness of those subtler realms cannot be portrayed - this gap the viewer will fill in himself when he realises what he's seeing. Changes in points of view of filmakers have often equaled shifts in consciousness of the public. Television screens can be used for contemplative meditation extremely effectively. This ground has not yet been trodden by filmmakers.

[monasman]

Transcend the reality of the purely sense world? There are some amazing possibilities here... The medium of film involves image and sound, so it is tied to the sense world in what intrinsically. Through story and image film also manipulates the soul, the inner experiences of the viewer. To depict in film the vast and colourful world underlying the physical as seen by the clairvoyant has only recently become possibl.

[klastiaan]

In other words, technology will transcend our realities?

[klastiaan]

I guess I agree.

I think meditation is more about the ability of holding focus, than the subject/object of focus itself.

Important here seems the subject, which would be (just) another object, clung onto by you of some part of you.

Judging the sounds and image(s), this must be something...

[klastiaan]

Impressive concept.

[comradenash]

I think it would be a mistake to believe that gazing at a video screen is any substitute for the power of the imagery within the human mind, were a person to undertake such a meditation. What's lacking here is the difficulty and self-directed discipline inherent in holding these images in one's mind. Furthermore, to transform the image in a manner that accords with your insights and perceptions is to deprive others of their own inner experience.

[morgantuffs]

PART 5! Now imagine that face morphing again against the backdrop of a symbol of your choice.

What becomes of this symbol-face during the film and after the animation has run its course in comparison with the background it has at present?? Or a white background?

[morgantuffs]

PAR 4! For anyone that thought the film was damn cool but missed the connection with what I was saying:

Consider the cross directly behind the face. If you don´t feel it is a cross or it is in actuality something else, then consider how the morphing would look with just a white background.

[morgantuffs]

PART 3! Forgive me the maker/uploader of this animation if I have just presumed that you and I have the same frame of reference. Perhaps it is not wholy important, anyway.

If that be the case then it will be damned funny to read for you, at least.

[morgantuffs]

PART2! Why have I never seen a film with complicated relationships depicted, where appropriate, through the shifts in the computer generated auras of its main characters?Because I have not lived long enough. It has not been done yet (correct me please if you know differently). But it will become prevalant in my lifetime, and this astonishing youtube animation is the only example I have ever seen until now of the power of the unseen being used in such an an intentional and direct way on film.