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Dust Thou Art
“Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” Meditation of the artist recovering from an eye operation, during her walks in Berlin in May 2017, where she met the famous statue of the Trümmerfrau* infested with caterpillar webs from the tree next to it, while the wind played gently with the strings of the artist’s guitar, turning it into an aeolian harp. * Literally translated as ruins woman or rubble woman, German-language name for women who, in the aftermath of World War II, cleaned up the bombed cities of Germany and Austria, removing all ruins. title: Dust Thou Art •••>
The Mighty Magic Fruit Machine
Teaser video for “THE MIGHTY MAGIC FRUIT MACHINE: eat and regener-ate”, An interactive project, programmed with the Raspberry Pi © Maria Korporal, 2017 First presentation in Group Global 3000, Berlin, 19.05 – 30.06.2017 Deutsch – bitte hier klicken The visitors of the exhibition are invited to play with a virtual fruit machine, which is projected as a large image on the wall. You can click with the mouse on a button to play. The rotating wheels of this slot machine show fresh fruits alternated by packaging waste of sweets, snacks, lemonade, cigarettes etc. If you have caught a fresh piece •••>
Die Grenzen der Sprache
Die Grenzen der Sprache (The Limits of Language) an interactive installation by Maria Korporal in the exhibition “Update 17”, 21.04 – 28.05.2017 in Galerie VBK, Schöneberger Ufer 57, 10785 Berlin •••>
Specchiatura
Specchiatura • un video di Maria Korporal da una poesia di Faraòn Meteosès con il danzatore Alessandro Pintus – NON COMPANY – www.alessandropintus.com cast: Alessandro Pintus – danza butoh recitativo: Nina Maroccolo, Faraòn Meteosès testo: Faraòn Meteosès (Stefano Amorese) musica: Daniele Venturi – www.danieleventuri.com – con Alessandro Stradaioli al contrabbasso regia, camera, immagini, effetti e montaggio: Maria Korporal Il video è stato pubblicato su DVD come parte del progetto “Largo Sguardo”. > più info. > vedi anche lo storyboard del video •••>
Death Dance Visions
L’artista esegue una danza macabra rituale nello Schwerbelastungskörper (“corpo che sopporta un grande carico”), una struttura costruita a Berlino nel periodo nazista, densa di memoria. Durante la danza, la Morte •••>
Korporal Zoo: il progetto
“Korporal Zoo” è una serie di video di Maria Korporal in cui il mondo animale e umano è osservato da diversi punti di vista – culturale, sociale, ambientale. Il progetto è un work in progress iniziato nel 2010. I video di “Korporal Zoo” sono stati realizzati con una grande varietà di tecniche e ogni opera è un mix animato di foto e filmati, nonché disegni e collage. Alcune immagini dello studio: I video nel progetto: •••>
Defrosting device for apparently meaningless ink stains
Il video è stato creato su un pezzo di “musica concreta”, che affronta il tema dell’incomunicabilità. Compositore Emiliano Pietrini (Globoscuro) ha costruito la sua musica con una serie di dialoghi •••>
Felix in Hortus Conclusus
“Felix in Hortus Conclusus”: a bicycle trip to the live concert of Hortus Conclusus Records, in Friedenskirche Charlottenburg, Berlin, April 10, 2016 The soundtrack of this video is an excerpt from the track “Encephalogramophones”, written and composed on stage by Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, Ángel Sánchez Cervera and Emiliano Pietrini , with the metaphysical vocal contribution by Aphra Tesla, during the live concert of Hortus Conclusus Records (Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, Braghsdn and Globoscuro) on April 10, 2016 in “Die Baptisten In Berlin – Friedenskirche Charlottenburg”. Link to download: archive.org/details/HCRwithAphraTesla_LiveInBerlin_HCR2016 Hortus Conclusus Records © 2016 Video shooting, effects and montage •••>
Breathearth
“Breathearth” – an interactive installation by Maria Korporal. A video screen shows an initial view of a desolate landscape, dry and barren. The spectators are invited to breathe in a small earth globe, in which has been hidden a micophone connected to the system. With each breath, grass, leaves and flowers appear in the landscape, until they cover the whole ground with colours and life. When the breathing stops, after a short time the vegetation disappears and the landscape turns barren again: the earth needs our breath to stay alive! Which each new session, other combinations of vegetation appear – •••>