GAGE 05: Kisspál Szabolcs - Edging
Kisspál Szabolcs was born in Romania & based in Budapest, Hungary. He studied as a postgraduate at Budapest Fine Arts University, and was a lecturer at the Academy of Visual Arts Cluj. Kisspál has developed installation and performance works towards video and computer-based practice, and although using technical and electronic images and sounds, his art maintains an intermedial
attitude towards the elements of the work, following rather an inductive
than a generative
tradition.
For HAL Szabolcs showed a single screen video installation called Edging. The flight of birds is unpredictable. If one points the camera towards the sky and pushes the red button, a bird might fly across the image frame in the course of time. It may fly in from any direction and may direct its course to any point in space, but the tape may also run out before the bird appears. The image of the slowly altering clouds remains an infinit yet empty set of possibilities until the vector of a bird's flight traverses it. The event signifies the beginning and the end of the story and marks two distant points in space, that is where the bird has entered and left both the imaginary and the concrete space of the lens' visual pyramid. At this moment the spectacle becomes an event, whereas the image metamorphoses into a fact.