angel of history: scrapbook

lina dib & sha xin wei

studies

stuff

sometimes looking for a thing constitutes the thing. rebecca moore, lamp shop, admiral charcoal's song (50s aiff )

can we want some of the archaic richness nd irony of remedios varo?

- remedios varo, armonia

a musical converation between composer-scientist and muse-nature

 

- remedios varo, unexpected guest

entering the space one could feel like this woman, or her guest the system takes her hand.

 

motion tracking bahves something like this

- paul caponigro, running white deer

the apparatus, composed of the photographer, his carefully arranged instruments, his prepared assistants, the light (both electrical and solar), the dark forest

 

bill viola:

(slow motion: shot in 35mm at 384 fps, transferred to video, portraiture, no motion blur)

- bill viola, the quintet of the astonished 2001

 

- bill viola, silent mountain 2001

- bill viola, the messenger 1983

- bill viola, the passing (1, 2, 3, 4)

 

16 august 2009, menlo park (19 july 2009, montreal)