PENELOPE IS WAITING
VIDEO INSTALLATION BY PEDRO VALIENTE
PENELOPE IS WAITING (2015, 7min) video installation by Pedro Valiente.
"A multiple portrait of a contemporary Penelope who is expecting Ulysses. We imagine an empty space in the end of the world, which is here. Inside everyone. A long wait full of love where everything is an affirmation of life. (Maybe this is why Ulysses by James Joyce ends: yes I said I want yes)".
Originally conceived as a transmedia project, it´s a video-installation/performance for art centers, public spaces, and the internet. Main element is the simultaneous projection of 4 videos of 7 minutes as a Cubist scene by Picasso. It´s produced to be distributed through a variety of media as movie theaters, television channels, and the internet –Web, Vimeo, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook…
Penelope is Waiting is a work by filmmaker/multimedia artist Pedro Valiente, who started working on video design with Robert Wilson. It´s conceived as a technological tableau vivant with performers/artists Alfredo Miralles and Irene Gómez. An essential element is the contemporary music composed by Juan José Talavera, emotional and subtle, that along with the sound design creates a powerful storytelling. It integrates a performance by actress Paloma Zavala, Odin Teatret collaborator, and emergent figure in Madrid; photography by Juan Manuel Núñez; graphic work by visual artist Javier Chavarría; and digital media developed by Sara Conde. Also, it´s supported by brilliant essays by Javier Gorostiza, engineer and director of Robotic Department UC3M; and Luz Neira, expert on classic vide-dean of Culture and Communication UC3M.
As a live performance, it´s a moving portrait of mythical Penelope in 4 large screens displaced on a squared/rectangular room.
Spectators enter the space and decide what to see. They are free to choose since the picture is neither single nor still. Penelope is viewed in different ways –looking through a Balcony, sleeping under a Table, floating around Columns, and making Coffee. Although in this game of mirrors (screens/portraits) there is a double narrative –the open story constructed in the mind of the audience and the one suggested by the contemporary music.
Penelope is Waiting is interconnected with other productions and platforms:
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© 2015 Crossing Stages European Project I Aula de las Artes, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid I Flying Fish Work I Pedro Valiente
