Participants:
Ellie Roussos
Dioni Arida
Anastasis Ioannou
Exhibition Text:
For one week we focused on the impact of isolation on the creative process through the formation of personal “islands” in the Vessel space. We were inspired by the tension between dependence and independence inherent in the island condition as well as by the various materials that emerge to bridge land masses (language and culture, ecology, trade) in a region such as the Argo Saronic gulf.
Large curtains of drawing paper with gaps around the working tables separated the stations of each of us, offering only glimpses of the feet, hands and tools of the other.
Since this was primarily a process piece, we were interested in pointing the camera at the working process itself and developing the film in house as a group. This was our time for collaboration towards a shared product at the end of the working day. Keeping in spirit with the ecological and experimental ethos of Vessel, we concocted various organic developer recipes using coffee, seaweed, vitamin c and soda to develop both images and film.
Some of these images were then reabsorbed through analog means in slides or digital means using green screen video.
The result is a blended offering of objects, paintings and drawings, digital and analog media which chronicle themes of our individual work as well as our joint experience in residence.
During the week I began experimenting with green screen as a tool to cut into my drawings. This video was projected onto drawing paper surrounded by pencil drawings during the exhibition.