Eclipse
SPECTRUM MAGNETA

May 17 at 8.00 pm, 9.30 pm, 10.30 pm
Venue: Galerija Kapelica
Duration: 15 minutes
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Spectrum Magenta is a work that was created in 2004 and has remained vital ever since, most recently it was staged in Belgrade. Spectrum Magenta is a seduction game between a female body and a computer. The performer tries to seduce the computer and find within it what she lacks. One of the female performers establishes the starting atmosphere on the stage and ensures the untroubled flow of this game of seduction, and of events on stage. The other performer takes her position on a table with a telescopic joystick and begins the game: the computer animation starts when the performer touches the joystick and is projected on a reflective screen where minimal visual reactions appear – images. The difficulty of the game progresses until it reaches a climax when the visual images on the canvas and the musical background switch places in terms of the rapidity and direction of movement. The outcome of the game is not determined in advance.
Eclipse is a tandem of two women educated in visual media who burst into the scene with the need to radicalise it. The artists offer a playful form of body art that they themselves call rhetorical soft porn kitsch. In their actions, performances, and exhibitions, the two women like to poke at the most painful and taboo points in the national imagery, from partisan iconography to religion, all through their own bodies.

Performers: Eclipse
Programming and sound: Luka Prinčič
Reconstruction hardware: Martin Hribar, Boštjan Špetič
Photography: Igor Škafar
Production: Galerija Kapelica

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