Flash is an international contemporary art/music project whereby visual artists from home and abroad, contemporary composers and musicians are invited to react to each other from within the context of their own disciplines. It is about the development, execution and presentation of nine DVD's.
The following words are found under the letter 'i' in a French pocket dictionary: interrupteur, interruption and intervalle. In English they are: switch, break and interval. The three words assume a binary structure which forms the basis of practically our entire modern world: machines, electricity, photography, cinema. This structure contains and arranges a maximum of data: male/female, light/dark, left/right, good/bad, black/white. Ruggirello uses this simple 'in and out' principle explicitly in his videos, installations, drawings and sculptures. He combines for instance routine actions and situations, objects or animals with coloured surfaces. The filmed scenes get cut as a result of which the intervals take on more and more meaning. Or rather, the sometimes abrupt interruptions create a kind of noise and the original duality becomes detached. Meaning and meaninglessness are continually 'in flux' and the exception or the transition (re)modulates the image.
– Phillip van den Bossche
'Bien Mesuré Bien' is a term that the French harpsichord composer François Couperin (1668-1733) used when one of his pieces needed to be played briskly. This also applies to my harpsichord piece. Preceding this strict canonical cycle is a short song, 'Couperin's Advice', once again written to a text by François Couperin. In his description of his technique, 'L'art de toucher le clavecin', Couperin sets out his many ideas on playing the harpsichord, and on how the harpsichordist should behave. Couperin was after all, just like Ruggirello and myself, a great lover of poultry.
– Martijn Padding
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Production: Bifrons Stichting, Amsterdam (Netherlands) & BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (UK)
Jean-Claude Ruggirello ° 1959, Paris (France)
Lives and works in Marseille (France)
Martijn Padding ° 1956, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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