This video poem is based on 2-channel video installation exhibited at the solo exhibition poARTree at G.A.D. Gallery (Berlin, Germany, 2011)
Concept
ANATOLIY KHARKHURIN
ANATOLIY KHARKHURIN
Poetry
TOVY HARHUR
TOVY HARHUR
Video
ZLATAN FILIPOVIĆ
ZLATAN FILIPOVIĆ
Act
RIK ABY
RIK ABY
It continues my experimental work combining visual and verbal elements in a coherent whole aiming to elicit an aesthetical reaction in a beholder. The poem develops the theme from Greek mythology about Orpheus, a legendary musician, poet, and prophet.
Orpheus descends into the underworld of Hades to rescue his deceased wife Eurydice. His singing enchants Hades’s wife Persephone who convinces her husband to grant Orpheus permission to return Eurydice to the realm of the living. There is only one condition: During his journey from the underworld, Orpheus should not look back at Eurydice. Orpheus looks back...
Orpheus is an archetype of a poet. Eurydice in the realm of the dead is only a shadow. She exists only in his imagination. Dialogue between Orpheus and Eurydice is a dialogue between the poet and his muse, a dialogue with himself.
Hence, Orpheus&Orpheus depicts two figures of the same male figure reciting both male and female parts. The dialog takes place in Orpheus’s mind for there is no other person in the scene (Eurydice is in his imagination). This notion is presented by lips moving out of sync with audio track. The incongruence between the visual and auditory planes is meant to elicit per Vygotsky aesthetical reaction to this work.
at the venue
