Universe Energies Sustain Us

A poetic video collage about light, air and language, the materials and processes we use to communicate and survive; exploring the translation and regulation of data by the body and technology; the aesthetics and consequences of error; the relationships of transparency and difference; problems of image order and presentation, identity, authenticity, feedback and loss, copyright and ownership, access and denial, time, space, speed and memory. Composed of recycled sequences of abstract animation and performance video (sourced from Cold Tape, Myeyeye, Enter, Island, Walk, Play and Letters), together with documentation of the imaging process, and incidental, ambient and appropriated material. Originally shown in a spoonful of water, then as a multi-channel video installation, and then as a single channel projection. With electronic music by Norman Shaw. “Earlier film and video works are sampled, along with documentation of installations. The surface, material and apparatus of film and video are all in the mix, including the brief appearance of the notice encountered in editing software when a video sequence is played back unrendered. This casual database of material is reprocessed and manipulated into a video of multi-dimensional self-reflexivity and layered recycling, video keying, saturated colourful fidgety pixellated abstract mosaics in an excessive megamix: what Iacono refers to as “babble… the language of languages”, the piece is a kind of abstract metadata, data about data.” Steven Ball