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Torque (an axial landscape) (2006) [Dorsky Configuration, for Brian Wallace, Curator], (3 min. 43 sec.): Recorded in high speed whirling of a small 3-CCD Panasonic digital camcorder at the end of a strap and in an arc of 360 degrees viewing trees from the ground to the sky and back around; slowed below the frame rate (30 FPS) and edited. Deep sound of camcorder whirling in air (lens cap banging) and other site noises slowed to a level nearly sub-audible…
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In George Quasha's axial video, fingers are holding graphite in the process of doing two-handed axial drawing, and in the actual process and movement they embody a configurative state somehow equivalent to the drawing itself. This embodiment of configuration (a state between figuration and abstraction) is visually and aurally accessible only under the specific intimate condition of video slow-motion, as a time/space-based art/music. By focusing below…
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Artist's statement: In the work I call "axial video" there is a species I name “verbal objects”. It implicitly raises questions like: In what sense is a verbal construct an object? Do our verbal projections objectify reality more that subjectify it? Is language more like an object or a living organism? If the latter, is “understanding” language the truest or most powerful way of relating to it? In the video pair titled "I Don’t Understand Language"—a…
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Artist/poet George Quasha's axial video, "Pulp Friction" (2003, v. 4): a non-narrative, material, bodily, performative engagement with “art pulp” (strange paper, specially created by Fluxus artist Alison Knowles for sound performance [for which she has used this video and title]). The result—“sculptural video,” “configurative erotics,” “abstract concretion”—effects a loud, frictive manipulation of translucently textured “sounding papers.” Intimate…
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"I Don’t Understand Language" [II] (2009) (6 min. 21. sec) with performers David Arner, Alan Baer, John Beaulieu, Jenny Fox, Jan Harrison, Alana Siegel, Charles Stein, and Sherry Williams, created for the occasion of “Talking Tongues and Other Organs,” a performance in Woodstock, New York, at the Kleinert Gallery, February 26th, 2009. The apparent nonsense of the statement uttered by eight adults (artists, poets, musicians, and an architect) is played…
Axial Video
George Quasha’s axial video comprises a range of works, including “verbal objects,” “axial objects,” and “axial landscapes.” Among the works are: Pulp Friction, Confingering Figures, Training Light, and I Don’t Understand Language. They aim to transport the viewer by way of the "axial principle"– sometimes abruptly, sometimes incrementally through a series of barely perceptible thresholds – from the realm of ordinary time,
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