Bill Psarras - "Walking Portraits: Performing Asphalts"
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Concept / Creation: Bill Psarras
Walking performance: Bill Psarras
Duration: 3:45
Year: 2012
Bill Psarras © 2012. All rights reserved.
* The artwork is part of Psarras PhD.
*The artwork was awarded the 1st prize in the Cinematique Film Festival 2013 (London, UK).
Synopsis:
‘Walking Portraits..’ is an audiovisual piece of a series of walking performances across five London station areas. It was documented through video, sound and GPS. The mundane and unnoticed details of everyday life become the poetics as Bill Psarras walks and performs a metaphor. The artist walks by passing from the interior to the exterior of such spaces and vice versa. He follows repetitively different asphalt patterns, signs and coloured lines - tactic which allows him initiate a sensorial dialogue with these stations. Influenced by Benjamin's metaphor of ''botanizing on the asphalt'', the artist goes botanizing on the different surfaces and senses inside and outside these daily spaces of transition, which set an ongoing sensorial dialogue as little topographies are revealed in the porous surface of them.