Insomniac City by Ran Slavin (Audiovisual Performance on DEAF04)

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Slavin performs an interlaced mix between reality and urban illusion, representing the current daily flow [Tel Aviv/Europe], and an unstable radical shift of the city space/time.
Insomniac City explores through video and sound, the hidden psyche in the urban texture and offers a wide gaze on concepts of transit and shift, while weakening the boundries between reality and illusion, present and future, radical architecture and digital dislocations. Through an insomniac-like stream, the gaze drifts from external perception to internal suspension, while what we see - and what we think we see - mixes and blurs into a twilight zone.

Ran Slavin is an artist working with sound and video as director, composer and improviser, producing audio-visual based screening works as well as video clips and live a/v improvisation. His narratives often undermine urban undercurrents and texture, evolving around dislocations of reality into often surreal dream sequences, where routine bits of reality turn into an invitation to a voyage into hidden territories which coexist with daily reality.
Founder of his own label -imprint- esoteric recordings, and collaborating with the labels Cronica, Mille Plateaux, Sub Rosa, Fact, Earsay, Interval, he has produced soundtracks for various film and dance ensambles and showing/performing his work in Israel and across europe in festivals and galleries such as Transmediale & Podewil Berlin, "PixelAche" festival Helsinki, Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Piano Nobile - Geneve, Isratim film festival -Paris, Krowaderska Krakow, Brussles, at the jewish Museum & at MOOV fest - New York, Athens [E-phos], China and recently has been commissioned to produce a large video work for the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Ran
• Slavin
• Insomniac
• City
• Audiovisual
• Performance
• VJ
• DEAF
• 2004
• interactive
• art
• installation
• new
• media
• unstable
• V2
• Rotterdam