‘The Operational Model’ is an exhibition including a lecture on the
performance act of ‘the looking’ based on the installation work
OPERATED; a work that has been developed and concluded within a
specific group of invited viewers only a few hours before the doors
open to the public. It is an opening to a logic of an installation
where a viewer becomes an observer, an observation point and again a
director of the gaze with a fade out to the installation's own
system through the direct feedback. Yet the original live event is
using an elaborate apparatus system. During the exhibition view of ‘The
Operational Model’ the apparatus was replaced by a diagrammatic
representation in place.
photo credits Ilya Rabinovich
floor map of OPERATED at Bergstraat in
Amsterdam location of MoMart - 2015
floor map of OPERATED at Mauritskade in
Amsterdam former location of DasArts Institute - 2013
OPERATED attempts to
subtract the event from the event while developing it at the same time
of staging it, directing it and interacting within its own logic. The
audience can shift their position under a certain system of instructions
within the accumulation of viewing. Each member audience has a floor
plan of the space with particular root. The printed floor-plans contain
different roots supporting the independent roles of the attended. The
tension of the event starts by an invitation call to a specified
audience. The invitations include a number of time slots, acting as a
basic script of presenting the roles of each one attending to the rest.
A series of 'instructions' as the aforementioned are formulated in
relation to the spatial arrangements.
I am
interested to create a discussion on the performance act of ‘the
looking’; the viewer delivers the intention of the work unfolding as
‘the becoming’. In the work OPERATED my focus is on the role of an
artist becoming the system operator of mechanisms of the 'seen'.
OPERATED + The Operational Model
photo credits
Skafte Aymo-Boot
The Operational
Model has developed to an independent
video installation including a lecture about the a logic of a work
that places the viewer in perspective to the actual events
that the recordings have occurred in relation to the significance of
a viewer. A mix of video recordings and an educational format of a 'powerpoint'
presentation is used aiming to a formal ground of diagrammatic
relations by placing a 2nd projection in parallel to a video
screening recorded in OPERATED #3.
Durational video installation - video in loop
Lecture circa 30'
performed at MoMart
- Amsterdam 2015 / Performance Biennial - Athens 2016
The Operational Model
