Pixterity I
2020 – 2021 | Permanent Exhibition | National Gallery, Athens
Video credits
Effie Halivopoulou, concept, videography and sound mapping
Katia Savrami, performance
Nikos Falagas animation, montage
Tim Ward sound design
Effie Halivopoulou, concept, videography and sound mapping
Katia Savrami, performance
Nikos Falagas animation, montage
Tim Ward sound design
While watching endless videos of hands clad in surgical gloves sucking the vaccine out of its bottle and into a syringe on channel TV, it looks like this ritual, shared amongst every single civilian on the planet, is the ultimate symbol of a glorified globalization. It is also the ritual that suggests- in its emblematic intervention on the body - the beginning of an era that is bound by digital trauma, the sense of belonging -or- not belonging- through connectivity, the sense of experiencing time in an accelerated pause. Some of the key ingredients of the pandemic through this observed burst of exponential technology are phenomena that have affected the way we share time, energy, emotions, and the conflict of the real versus the virtual. Some more ingredients are located in nature and the biotechnological potentialities that have burdened our vocabularies with words like mutations, transmitters, hosts, suggesting a constant “problematic” flow of matter between humans and animals that creates biological tension, disease and ultimately death.
The series of videos Pixterity were conceptualized during the lockdowns and through the online Summer 2020 residency of the Faculty Resource Νetwork program of New York University, New York.
In Pixterity I, the overlapping moving image of hands clad in surgical gloves and the stock exchange digital tickertape confluence in a visual experience which underlines the oppositions, conflicts and ruptures of the current health crisis. Reaching the sky in invocation, the hands exist in a gloomy white light. They implore, caress and cure. The frame is fluctuated by the trespassing ribbon of the stock exchange which is gradually transformed into an aggressive colorful and organic abstract space that dominates the frame.
The video belongs to the permanent collection of the National Gallery, Athens, and is currently on view.
Effie Halivopoulou, Athens, May 2021
The series of videos Pixterity were conceptualized during the lockdowns and through the online Summer 2020 residency of the Faculty Resource Νetwork program of New York University, New York.
In Pixterity I, the overlapping moving image of hands clad in surgical gloves and the stock exchange digital tickertape confluence in a visual experience which underlines the oppositions, conflicts and ruptures of the current health crisis. Reaching the sky in invocation, the hands exist in a gloomy white light. They implore, caress and cure. The frame is fluctuated by the trespassing ribbon of the stock exchange which is gradually transformed into an aggressive colorful and organic abstract space that dominates the frame.
The video belongs to the permanent collection of the National Gallery, Athens, and is currently on view.
Effie Halivopoulou, Athens, May 2021
