Flash is an international contemporary art/music project whereby visual artists from home and abroad, contemporary composers and musicians are invited to react to each other from within the context of their own disciplines. It is about the development, execution and presentation of nine DVD's.
'See eye' opens with a text on reality. The written word takes on meaning only when it has been read. Only then is an image formed, in language and aided by the eye. Here also with the words "let us see, is this real". The composition by Paul Termos begins with a teeming lament as though at any moment something or someone unexpected might strike or appear. After the flash the spectator cannot do much other than look at abstract, colourful images without words. They make one think of leaves, branches, a clock, shell-less mussels, a face. The fleeting, changing images hypnotize as the eye tries to 'see' something. Something that ultimately only takes place inside the head of the viewer. "Let us see, is this real?" In the longer piece the sound of the composition continues further with loose, plucked sounds. In response to this we hear clear, dry raps of wood on wood as though the sounds from two pleasing words are being recited rhythmically again and again. At the end the improvised voice of a saxophone, accompanied by percussion, seems to bring out an ode to these two telling words. In 'The Art of Hunger' harpsichord and percussion alternate precisely, and now and then playfully change places. The saxophone picks up the energy this releases and, together with percussion, brings the work to an end with a short improvisation.
- Kees van Gelder
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Production: Bifrons Stichting, Amsterdam (Netherlands) & BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (UK)
Ansuya Blom ° 1956, Groningen (Netherlands)
Lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Paul Termos ° 1952, Hilversum (Netherlands)
Lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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