Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art

Translator: Thu-Huong Ha Reviewer: Morton Bast

Prevoditelj: Senzos Osijek Recezent: Danijela Rako

I love to collect things.

Volim skupljati stvari.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had massive collections

Još od djetinjstva imao sam ogromnu zbirku

of random stuff, everything from bizarre hot sauces

različitih stvari, sve od bizarnih ljutih umaka

from all around the world to insects

s različitih strana svijeta do kukaca

that I've captured and put in jars.

koje sam uhvatio i stavljao u staklenke.

Now, it's no secret, because I like collecting things,

Nije tajna da, kako volim skupljati stvari,

that I love the Natural History Museum

volim i Natural History Museum,

and the collections of animals

te zbirke životinja

at the Natural History Museum in dioramas.

koje se tamo nalaze u dioramama.

These, to me, are like living sculptures, right,

One su za mene kao živuće skulpture

that you can go and look at,

koje možeš posjetiti i pogledati,

and they memorialize a specific point of time

a koje čuvaju određen trenutak u vremenu

in this animal's life.

u životu tih životinja.

So I was thinking about my own life,

Tako sam razmišljao o vlastitom životu

and how I'd like to memorialize my life, you know,

i o tome kako bih volio sačuvati uspomenu na njega, znate,

for the ages, and also — (Laughter) —

za sva vremena i također - (Smijeh) -

the lives of my friends, but

živote mojih prijatelja,

the problem with this is that my friends aren't quite keen

ali problem je u tome što moji prijatelji nisu previše zagrijani

on the idea of me taxidermy-ing them. (Laughter)

za ideju prepariranja. (Smijeh)

So instead, I turned to video,

Tako sam se okrenuo videu,

and video is the next best way to preserve and memorialize

a video je sljedeći najbolji način da se sačuva uspomena

someone and to capture a specific moment in time.

na nekoga te zaustaviti određen poseban trenutak u vremenu.

So what I did was, I filmed six of my friends

Ono što sam učinio jest da sam snimio šest svojih prijatelja

and then, using video mapping and video projection,

i zatim, koristeći video maping i video projekciju,

I created a video sculpture, which was these six friends

stvorio video skulpture, mojih šest prijatelja

projected into jars. (Laughter)

zarobljenih u staklenkama. (Smijeh)

So now I have this collection of my friends

Tako sada imam zbirku svojih prijatelja

I can take around with me whenever I go,

koju mogu ponijeti sa sobom kamo god išao,

and this is called Animalia Chordata,

a djelo se zove Animalia Chordata,

from the Latin nomenclature for

iz latinskog sustava nomenklature

human being, classification system.

ljudskih bića, klasifikacijski sustav.

So this piece memorializes my friends in these jars,

Tako ovo djelo uspijeva očuvati moje prijatelje u staklenkama,

and they actually move around. (Laughter)

te se oni čak mogu i kretati. (Smijeh)

So, this is interesting to me,

Dakle, to je vrlo zanimljivo,

but it lacked a certain human element. (Laughter)

ali nedostajao mi je određen element ljudskosti. ( Smijeh)

It's a digital sculpture, so I wanted to add

Ovo je digitalna skulptura, tako da sam htio dodati

an interaction system. So what I did was,

sustav interakcije. Ono što sam učinio jest

I added a proximity sensor, so that when you get close

da sam dodao senzor blizine, stoga kada se približite

to the people in jars, they react to you in different ways.

ljudima u staklenkama, oni reagiraju na različite načine.

You know, just like people on the street

Znate, kao što ljudi na ulici

when you get too close to them.

reagiraju kada im se previše približite.

Some people reacted in terror. (Laughter)

Neki ljudi reagiraju prestrašeno. (Smijeh)

Others reacted in asking you for help,

Drugi vas traže za pomoć,

and some people hide from you.

a neki se kriju od vas.

So this was really interesting to me, this idea of

Ovo mi je bilo zanimljivo, ta ideja

taking video off the screen and putting it in real life,

uzimanja videa s ekrana i postavljanja u stvarni život

and also adding interactivity to sculpture.

također dodajući interaktivnost sa skulpturom.

So over the next year, I documented 40 of my other friends

Tako da sam tijekom sljedeće godine dokumentirao 40 svojih prijatelja

and trapped them in jars as well

i zarobio ih u svoje staklenke,

and created a piece known as Garden,

te stvorio djelo poznato kao Garden (Vrt),

which is literally a garden of humanity.

što doslovce predstavlja vrt čovječanstva.

But something about the first piece,

Ali nešto mi se u vezi ovog prvog djela,

the Animali Chordata piece, kept coming back to me,

Animalia Chordata, uporno vraćalo,

this idea of interaction with art,

ta ideja interakcije s umjetnošću,

and I really liked the idea of people being able to interact,

stvarno mi se svidjela zamisao da ljudi mogu stupiti u interakciju

and also being challenged by interacting with art.

s umjetnošću, te također biti izazvani u kontaktu s njom.

So I wanted to create a new piece that actually

Tako sam htio stvoriti novo djelo koje će zapravo

forced people to come and interact with something,

primorati ljude da se približe i ostvare kontakt s nečime,

and the way I did this was actually by projecting

a način na koji sam ovo ostvario jest da sam projektirao

a 1950s housewife into a blender. (Laughter)

kućanicu iz 1950-ih u električnu miješalicu. (Smijeh)

This is a piece called Blend, and what it does is

Ovo djelo se zove Blend, a ono što čini jest

it actually makes you implicit in the work of art.

da vas doista uključuje u umjetnost.

You may never experience the entire thing yourself.

Možda nikada nećete to sami potpuno iskusiti.

You can walk away, you can just watch as this character

Možete otići, možete samo promatrati kako lik

stands there in the blender and looks at you,

stoji sam u miješalici i gleda u vas

or you can actually choose to interact with it.

ili možete odlučiti ostvariti kontakt s njim.

So if you do choose to interact with the piece,

Ako odlučite ostvariti kontakt s djelom,

and you press the blender button, it actually sends

te pritisnete dugme na miješalici, ono lik pretvara

this character into this dizzying disarray of dishevelment.

u vrtoglavu miješajuću zbrku.

By doing that, you are now part of my piece.

Učinivši to vi ste postali dio mog djela.

You, like the people that are trapped in my work

Vi, kao i ljudi koji su zarobljeni u mom djelu

— (Blender noises, laughter) —

- (Zvuk miješalice, smijeh) -

have become part of my work as well. (Laughter)

postali ste i sami dio mog djela. (Smijeh)

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

But, but this seems a bit unfair, right?

Ali, ovo se čini pomalo nepoštenim, zar ne?

I put my friends in jars, I put this character,

Stavljao sam vlastite prijatelje u staklenke,

this sort of endangered species character in a blender.

stavio sam ovaj lik, na neki način ugroženu vrstu u električnu miješalicu.

But I'd never done anything about myself.

Ali nikada nisam ništa učinio samome sebi.

I'd never really memorialized myself.

Nikada nisam očuvao uspomenu na samoga sebe.

So I decided to create a piece which is a self-portrait piece.

Tako sam odlučio stvoriti djelo koje će biti na neki način autoportret.

This is sort of a self-portrait taxidermy time capsule piece

Ovo je neka vrsta očuvanog autoportreta vremenske kapsule

called A Point Just Passed,

koja se zove A Point Just Passed (Trenutak koji je upravo prošao)

in which I project myself on top of a time card punch clock,

gdje sam projektirao samoga sebe na vrh sata s probušenim karticama.

and it's up to you.

I stvar je na vama.

If you want to choose to punch that punch card clock,

Ako odlučite probušiti karticu na satu

you actually age me.

vi na određen način činite moj lik starijim.

So I start as a baby, and then if you punch the clock,

Počinjem kao dijete, a kada probušite karticu i pokrenete sat,

you'll actually transform the baby into a toddler,

pretvarate me u starije dijete,

and then from a toddler I'm transformed into a teenager.

a potom iz starijeg djeteta u tinejdžera.

From a teenager, I'm transformed into my current self.

Iz tinejdžera pretvaram se u trenutnog sebe.

From my current self, I'm turned into a middle-aged man,

Iz svog trenutnog stanja postajem sredovječni čovjek,

and then, from there, into an elderly man.

a potom se pretvaram u starijeg čovjeka.

And if you punch the punch card clock a hundred times

Ako pokrenete sat stotinu puta

in one day, the piece goes black

u jednom danu,

and is not to be reset until the next day.

djelo se zacrni i neće se ponovno pokrenuti da idućeg dana.

So, in doing so, you're erasing time.

Tako da čineći to, vi brišete vrijeme.

You're actually implicit in this work

Sudjelujete u ovom djelu

and you're erasing my life.

brišući moj život.

So I like this about interactive video sculpture,

To što volim kod interaktivne video skulpture

that you can actually interact with it,

jest da možete stupiti u kontakt s njom,

that all of you can actually touch an artwork

svi vi zapravo možete dodirnuti umjetničko djelo

and be part of the artwork yourselves,

te postati i sami njegov dio,

and hopefully, one day, I'll have each and every one of you

a jednog dana, nadam se, imat ću svakoga od vas

trapped in one of my jars. (Laughter)

zarobljenog u jednu od mojih staklenki. (Smijeh)

Thank you. (Applause)

Hvala! (Pljesak)