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.
White, red, brown and blue: coloured, vertical stripes swing to the left and to the right to the electronic rhythm of a monotonous groove. A record player that keeps turning? No, the sound is built up from new beep and drum sounds. Samples follow each other arbitrarily, continually in search of new combinations and music patterns. The camera slowly zooms out, the stripes take on the form of a sleeve, a jacket, a pair of trousers. We see two bodies, dressed in colourful suits. They attempt to free themselves from an embrace, only to become entangled again. The atmosphere is far from dramatic. Perhaps they do not want to break the connection(s) at all, and it is about the forces of attraction and detachment which only strengthen each other? 'Compact episodes' without beginning or end are found in Liza May Post's photos and videos. They are situations which are staged down to the smallest detail, in which an alienating precision quietly changes into everyday reality. 'Duwen' (1994) shows a display of various kinds of vacuum-packed meat. A child's hand resolutely jabs a chunk of meat. It is the point at which we are literally sucked into the image. The short scene then appears in ninety-nine different versions in the viewer's imagination. The compositions of the DJ collective Vodershow, simmer, bubble and murmur. Sounds are soap bubbles here. They use synthesized sounds and samples to record short, unpretentious soundscapes. The meaning lies in the process of making the music, the act of making a mix and a remix, of easily moving the turntables from the living room to the favourite pub or to an exhibition space; and, who knows, creating a never-ending flexible language.
– Phillip van den Bossche
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Production: Bifrons Stichting, Amsterdam (Netherlands) & BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (UK)
Liza May Post ° 1965, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Live and work in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Vodershow live and work in Glasgow (UK)
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