PAUSE, 2000
Jenny Marketou

PAUSE, 2000 two single channel video projections next to each other.

One of the projections is documentary footage shot in the Northern Canadian Rockies in Alberta in which I joined with my video camera a team consisting of a scientist and a researcher on their daily observations and data recordings of the free roaming and self regulated herds of elks and packs of wolves in an attempt to control,classify and track down the freedom of wild life.The observations were made non-intrusively from a distance, riding in a four wheel drive van and using spotting scopes, scent monitors and portable telemeter units for monitoring the animals and their predatory behavior control while mating. The viewer journeys through areas of constantly unfolding scientific observations, predatory attacks, human aggression, and dramatic events combined with the spectacular woodlands of the wild Rockies.

The second projection is of a created environment of grassy hilly skylines in upstate New York laced with yellow, red, green and purple plastic whirligigs/daisies. The viewer emerges in this ephemeral earthwork of artificial plants which, from time to time, spin as the wind blows, while their geometric and abstract forms remind us of the fields of poppies in which Dorothy and her companions in the Wizard of Oz almost fell asleep.

PAUSE, 2000 deliberately positions simultaneously two different sets of video footage which, although serve to unify the environment in a formal sense, are not meant to create a whole single narrative . As in much of my previous work, I have a profound interest in the wide world web and its effect on how we perceive time and space and visual montage. In Pause 2000 two different times and spaces are presented in two different images which co-exist simultaneously and a considerable mental and emotional effort from the viewers is needed to connect each other at all.

Here is a quote I would like to use from Foucault' lecture “Of Other Spaces" : "We are now in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed......."

Finally in the process of understanding and editing the material in the piece I want the viewers to experience something about “slow” time and to reflect upon questions of representation which opens the door to our imagination rather then the quick effects of pure sensationalism and exploitation of image.

Exhibitions:
“Blurring Boundaries” curated by Sania Papa, Borusan gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.borusansanat.com