Spintex, Nascent & Infected
Gina Czarnecki presents her films Spintex, Nascent and Infected followed by an artist talk after the screening.
Spintex is a first collaboration between Ulf Langheinrich and Gina Czarnecki, building upon their individual careers and experience of working with dance, film, theatre, sound and installation. Filmed at an open air night club and other locations in the Ashanti region of Ghana, where Ulf Langheinrich lives, Spintex is based on a real-time transition from day to night. The work encapsulates the multiple, interconnected daily rhythms of physicality and mortality that resonate in the environment and the dance.
Nascent is a visual and visceral journey about life, while Infected is about the relationship between the physical body in relation to the technology of the future. At once both a film and installation, Nascent exists between visual art, experimental media, technology and dance.
Czarnecki choreographs the works in the post production stage, giving her subjects abilities of movement beyond their means. The images are beautiful, reflective of traditional artistic concerns regarding the human form. At the same time, with a sometimes sinister air, Czarnecki communicates the possibilities and impacts of technology and environment on the human body.
In Infected, confined within a circular projection screen a dancer (Scottish Iona Kewney) moves with the distracted, disorientated impatience of a caged animal. As the film progresses, the figure stutters, jumps, blurs, is broken. We observe this image corruption as if by electronic interference. The deformation of the image is analogous to the descent of this once controlled body into trauma. Seen through the circular lense, the twisting body reminds us of frenzied, infected cells watched through a microscope.
Leading musician Fennesz was commissioned to compose the score for both Infected and Nascent.
Screening
11 September 2009 | Shanghai eArts Festival | Shanghai, CN
Gina Czarnecki and Ulf Langheinrich – Spintex
Produced by Forma. Funded by Capture
Ulf Langheinrich courtesy of Epidemic
Gina Czarnecki - Infected
Sound by Fennesz
Produced by Forma. Supported by Arts Council England
Gina Czarnecki - Nascent
Sound by Fennesz
Produced by Forma. Co-produced with Australian Dance Theatre
Commissioned by Forma and Adelaide Film Festival
Supported by Arts Council England
