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on my way

An artistic experiential exploration of the relationship between the "I" and reality

an - at times fictive - journey of the senses through various 

imagery space-time frames of present, future and past

"We do not move in one direction, rather do we wander back and forth, turning now this way and now that. We go back on our own tracks . . .' That thought of Montaigne's reminds me about something I thought of in connection with flying saucers, humanoids, and the remains of unbelievably advanced technology found in some ancient ruins. They write about aliens, but I think that in these phenomena we are in fact confronting ourselves; that is our future, our descendants who are actually traveling in time."  

 Andrei Tarkovsky on Time Travel




August 27th, 28th and 29th at 19.00 in De Singel - Kleine Zaal, Antwerp, BE

on my way -- iuliana daniela varodi -- Fri 20 Aug 2010 -- 1 reaction
Idiosyncratically Here - the stranger as a lens 
performance sketches - accidental side products of the research

I was here too, on my way. What brought me here, what kept me here and where am I now?

Philosophy is really homesickness, it is the urge to be at home everywhere (Novalis)
Longing for one's home. Not feeling at home anywhere. Not understanding. Not belonging. Operating as a stranger, as an outsider. Not knowing the rules. Missing Transylvanian hills and fresh mangoes. Not making sense. Trying to find meaning in a reality one apparently does not understand. Persistently questioning if reality might be something else than any combination of sensorial perceptions and theories might reveal. 
gaze deconstructed

What happens when one gives up? When one stops asking, enquiring, interpreting, deciding, thinking, watching, listening, talking, writing, hoping? When one surrenders to a seemingly self-inflicted alienation?

A short reenactment of the advanced performative journey and a DIY presentation of fragments of my artistic research on the relation(ship)s between Reality and the I. The work started in the context of a one year project hosted by "Advanced Performane and Scenography Studies" in Antwerp, a.pass


and this week ends today

on my way -- iuliana daniela varodi -- Thu 29 Jul 2010 -- 0 reactions
"toute tourne" -  dans un cookie


this week ends today

on my way -- iuliana daniela varodi -- Sun 25 Jul 2010 -- 0 reactions

Sunday. 6 thirtynine am. the tour of the curch in front of the window. blur juxtapositions of bird singings through the opening. sudently many blue question marks all over the screen. internet connection went down, off. don't refresh.  

Facebook Igor Dobrovic,  July 19th at 10.19 am : "Meditation is a performance of a delay, is confirmation of a gap, is encounter with a void, is a care for the self. Only a self that cares about its no-thingness can approach the thingness of an aparatus without being caught inside (or outside) of it". July 19th is the birthday of my expired brother. I wanted to call home that day, somehow I didn't. This morning at 5. Sitting went fine, listening to all the noises and movements that visit the body. Body wants to move, body wants to keep the back straight, body remembers that smile inside, that video clip on youtube. Body tastes that flavour, body wants to look inside. Inside the aparatus I wanted to say but lets' just say inside. H sitting at few steps away. Her universe, my universe and the gap in between. The feeling the hearing the thinking. That was what my research wanted to be about, when it started as a want. Tags. Time. Travel. This trick first happened last year, three words in a line as if - why sentences? Why structure? Why not just events? Or facts.

Water. Fresh chill air. Sun, rays, clouds. Feeling the bones on the chair. Feeling. Remembering feeling. Feeling the memory, imagining the feel of it. Imaginaring. Imaginarig a warm shower and a cup of coffee. No, no coffee today, let's keep the restrictions. Yesterday I had one, integrated error. Accepted failure. Today there will be something else. The bell of the church goes on 7 times. 

ah hahaaa and some more serious stuff :

"One way of resolving the dilemma in this case is simply to conclude that, at least according to Kant’s technical definition of knowledge, artists do not know what they are doing. They just do it, and allot to the critics and art historians the task of figuring out what it means and why they bothered. This comforting interpretation, too, has some plausibility: Many artists do, indeed, find it extremely difficult to theorize about what they are doing while they are doing it. It may take years, if ever, before an artist can put together an intelligible commentary about his work that helps it to make sense to everyone else; and surely this is in part to be explained by precisely that direct, intimate and unmediated relationship between the artist and the concrete particular he fashions. That particular is too complicated and overwhelming, too cryptic and multifaceted in its connections and associations, to be captured accurately in even the most fine-grained analysis – simplistic text-book descriptions and classifications of it notwithstanding."

from Piper's "Intuition and Concrete Particularity in Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic (2006)"

http://www.adrianpiper.com/docs/WebsiteIntuit&ConcrtParticTransAesth(2006).pdf






Z33 Hasselt. Last day. Chocolate eggs in the kitchen

on my way -- iuliana daniela varodi -- Wed 7 Apr 2010 -- 0 reactions

Invited by bolwerK : http://www.ooooo.be/greyzone/program-3.html

and then?


Day six. Label. Announcement. Departure. 


I stick a label on the wall above the candle I used to glue the fingerprints, on which I wrote with a pen:


I was here too / On my way  (2010)
Intervention / Installation




Interventions, traces / wax, label, name card
Iuliana Varodi


Read the entire text here : 

http://www.apass.be/apt.php?cwPage=browse%2Fprojectpage&cwProject=61&cwContent=588


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