| Unwilling Spectator |
| Art vidéo | digital | Farbe | 5'21'' | Spanien / China | 2010 |
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The tendency towards negation of space in favor of certain hegemony of the temporary has developed into a strategic reality of economic and political connotations of global character. Nowadays, the gaining of time is an exclusive question of vectors, and territory gives up its significance for the benefit of the projectile.
The approaches developed in recent projects like Switch off all devices (2006) or Twilight (2008) observe a patent capitalization of space and movement. Space is being equated and even gets dispensable, while gesture or orientation are gaining and acquire visual nature. The path is a spot and the vector imposes itself on the object. Thus the present tends to disappear in an incessant movement bringing about its non-presence.
This project proposes a real intervention on the spot of this conflict. Fast traffic lanes and their speedways materialize the place of topographic decommitment and the implementation of coercion or commitment to movement, in and endlessly traveled loop.
Contradiction, the existence of isolated deserts within this circulation circuit takes shape in the true miniaturized forests inside, which have been reduced to a symbolic function, whose experience as a place is not accessible any longer. Issues like scale or tangibility are here being disarranged. A gap opens, where radically different times succeed each other.
Carlos Irijalba (Pamplona, 1979) graduated at the University of the Basque Country and UDK Berlin. His work analizes the way in which Western culture recreates an abstract medium that loses all relations except to itself. Spectacle has marked out the plane of the visible so it can be easily digested, transferring attention towards a series of pseudo-events. Irijalba works in projects as Überlegung or the recent Twilight and Unwilling spectator in that direction between relative experience of time and space and the collective construction of the real.
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