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La Siesta is the result of an invitation by the Netherland Film Museum and the Joris Ivens Fondation in Amsterdam in 1995. This video installation uses black-and-white footage from several films by director Joris Ivens (1898-1989), dating from the 1930’s through the ‘70’s, juxtaposed with color images made by Muntadas. There is audiovisual recording of a nap, a moment of intimacy, and a symbolic evocation of dreams and utopia. Beginning with the sentence “All works of art are always autobiographical,” the introduction is a journey into memory, history, activity and war, and the silent image of a hand emphasizes La Siesta/The Nap/Dutje as a metaphor of pause, reflection and space between.
Source for Media Artists, Netherlands Film Museum, Amsterdam (1995-1996)
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Mercader, A (ed.). (1998). Muntadas Proyectos. Madrid: Fundación Arte y Tecnología.
- Beyond the Bridge: Joris Ivens, Source for Media Artists, Netherlands Film Museum, Amsterdam 1995-96
- Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, 1997
- Video Memory 1, Galerie ESCA, Milhaud (Francia), 1998
- Palma 12, Vilafranca del Penedès, 1998
Proyecto realizado para la exposición Beyond the Bridge: Joris Ivens, Source for Media Artists, en la que 6 artistas multidisciplinares de procedencias diversas fueron invitados a realizar una creación propia, pero referida de alguna manera a la personalidad y la obra del cineasta holandés Joris Ivens (1898-1989).
La siesta... es como un autorretrato audiovisual que combina extractos de la obra de otro artista –de la filmografía primera de Joris Ivens, básicamente– con el hilo conductor de la siesta como intervalo de reposo y relajación, y su desenlace en el regreso a la realidad vigil y a la actividad interrumpida. Una reflexión sobre la estética y la ética de la creación, sobre la subjetividad y la objetividad, sobre la experimentación y la comunicación. Proyección de vídeo sobre una pared blanca y sobre una butaca interpuesta.
Project carried out for the exhibition Beyond the Bridge: Joris Ivens, Source for Media Artists, in which 6 multidisciplinary artists from various backgrounds were invited to come up with their own creation referring in some way to the personality and work of the Dutch cinema director
Joris Ivens (1898-1989).
La siesta... is a sort of audiovisual self-portrait combining extracts of the work of another artist –basically the early films of Joris Ivens – with the common thread of the siesta as an interval of rest and relaxation, and its denouement in the return to ongoing reality and uninterrupted activity. A reflection on the aesthetics and ethics of creation, on subjectivity and objectivity, on experimentation and communication. Video projection on a white wall and an interposed chair.