PULSAR - Cineffable 2014

Pulsar (cycle de l'ange)

Directed by: Maria KLONARIS & Katerina THOMADAKI

Greece / France. 2001. Experimental. 14min. Color. No dialogue.

Synopsis

A pulsar is a galactic object, a neutron star born from a stellar collapse, which has intense electromagnetic emissions - radio waves, X impulses and syncopated optic frequencies. The X impulses are the result of thermonuclear flashes released when the accreted matter at the surface of the pulsar reaches critical point and pressure. A pulsar is a radio source.
The collapse from which it is created accelerates its rotation and keeps its magnetic induction which then becomes extremely intense.
Fragments of matter which seem to move at a speed equivalent to10 times the speed of light (superluminal jets) head towards the observer.
(Notes from astronomic sources)

Pulsar of the Cycle de l'Ange. In this cycle of works, we create ties between the human body and astronomic bodies. Maria Klonaris's impromptu performance is a negative dance, half way between pleasure and catastrophe, a body language in black and blue in front of the white screen and of the luminous blazes of a fireworks.
The sound space created by Spiros Faros affects the image of the explosive body through synaesthesic implosions.

M.K./K.T, September 2001.

Maria KLONARIS (1950-2014) & Katerina THOMADAKI

Photograph: Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki dans Tri-X-Pan (Double Autoportrait) 1977 © Klonaris/Thomadaki

Born in Cairo, Egypt, has studied fine arts at the National School of Fine Arts Athens, English literature at the University of Athens, egyptology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, experimental film, art history and philosophy of art at the University Paris I, Sorbonne, computer graphics at the National School of Decorative Arts, Paris.

Born in Athens, Greece, has studied literature and philosophy at the University of Athens, theater theory at the University Paris III, Sorbonne, philosophy of art at the University Paris I, Sorbonne, computer graphics at the National School of Decorative Arts, Paris. Katerina Thomadaki teaches media art at the University Paris I, Sorbonne.

Since their installation in Paris in 1975, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki form an inseparable pair. Klonaris and Thomadaki create vast cycles lasting several years and grow in several artistic disciplines: Tétralogie Corporelle, Cycle of the Unheimlich (around the "uncanny" of the female), The Hermaphrodite Cycle, The Angel Cycle, Sublime Disasters, The Twins... With these repeated nonstandard figures, they question the boundary between the sexes. Long before the emergence of "queer" movement, the work of Klonaris / Thomadaki nourished by critical thought (psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology, feminist thought ...), focuses on gender and intersex.

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October 30th to November 2, 2014

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