The context of the project I want to develop has to do with fascination, engagement, the sensationalism; it has to do with the aesthetics of the Internet and contemporary practices of immediacy, appropriation, frantic rhythms and mesmerizing loops, it looks like and uses marketing strategies focused in engage user’s attention.
Those strategies not only seek to give us information about products, nowadays ads seek to seduce us through entertainment, to captivate us, engage attention, then, secondly, they give certain information that will have more or less to do with what we were told at first. We can notice this tactic also, for example, in super-morbid and incomplete headlines that look for the click and in which many times, when entering in the content, we find that the news or article has very little to do with what was reported in its headline, normally the content is disappointing and misleading.
Mine it’s a kind of pop art that talks of contemporary culture using the same resources of the current Internet culture, as the previous ones we referred to (sensationalism, appropriationism, loops…) –and others like the overload of stimuli and information, the sensory chaos, the colors, etc. – to make a refexion about it.
I would like to continue developing the present project at both practical and theoretical level.
At theoretical level, I would like to continue researching in the ways of doing of society and in their ways of escaping on the internet and exploring the phenomenon of videos and internet content that act as oasis (satisfying videos), understand why of its emergence and what makes them so “satisfying”, how it relates with the current culture and which way it evolves.
At the practical level I intend to set up several pieces I have sketched and work on the generation of new ideas, that is to bring the studied concepts into practice.
The pieces to be created during the residence take notice in the industrial processes or the mechanical movements that are like mantras, with constant and repetitive rhythms and for that reason, they are mainly naked machines that allow to appreciate all the processes of the loops besides the loop itself.
They are also based on appropriationism, since they are composed of found objects, objects that being decontextualized and used in absurd machines, acquire a new formal and aesthetic dimension, they become captivating objects that, in addition, placed in installation format, generate a seemingly chaotic immersion space. They continue the line of work already begun keeping on the research in the contemporary ways of entertainment.
