Solstice Session

Seeing and hearing unexpected and perhaps questionable anonymous images, probably countless and contradictory, disturbing and dreamlike. First, this session proposes a speculation on the stereotypes that in times of emergency are assumed to be unnecessary and futile. Secondly, taking as a starting point the notion of hyperaccumulation as a possibility in certain contemporary imagery, a relationship is established between this and the complex intimacy of the singular, manual image. Sessió de Solstici compiles a series of cosy but unsettling derivations, moments of difficult identification that, like a hieroglyphic, promote an effort of active reasoning, once again based on intuitions and unconfirmed movements, in a context that seeks to detach itself from treacherous identifiers and expected associations.

In this prototype session, only possible in the days before the winter solstice, a useful reflection is proposed, from an interpretative and analytical perspective guided by an intuitive process, on asymmetries and imbalances, precarious balances and useful contradictions applied to the construction of an imaginary that cannot be described in this introductory text.

Solstice Session connects with Impossible Times, the beginning of the current series, Times to Come.

Solstice Session is a continuation of the Observatori de Vídeo No Identificat's study process on the progressive dissolution of the essential character of contemporary imaginaries, of their intimate integrity as effective means of understanding and unlocking curiosities.

Solstice Session, 30 min, Anonymous, 2025.

Solstice Session is a sequence composed of slow motion images and manual ambient sounds. In a structured whole in a purely perceptual format, a series of imaginaries about unidentified places, spaces and things are presented. Stereotypical figurations repositioned at the edge of what we recognise as real, close or familiar.

After the momentary collapse of sleep, we are beyond the mirage and impossible times, patiently crossing the last days before the longest night of the solar year. In an anonymous expression of contemplative moments impossible to express in words or thoughts, we propose in this long sequence composed of slow segments and strange illusions, a possible port of departure towards other more favourable destinations. We adopt a strategy of risk and a certain uprootedness, always consciously placing ourselves on the borderline between the possible and the unthinkable. 

Activity curated by Observatori de Vídeo No Identificat - Desorg punt Org

With the participation of Joan Leandre

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