Oksana Chepelyk META-PHYSICAL TIME-SPACE 

Project

 

Project offers a dialogue between conceptions of spatial experience and the reformatting of space/time relationships from video to immersive environments. 

It is a series of works concerning spatial form of moving imagery and site-specific installation, where human being is immersed into cosmogonic fluid environment, referring to Mark Hansen’s idea of fluidity (“New Philosophy for New Media”), evidently based on the Tao as the flow of the Universe. This principle allows to research so called “Interesting times”, catching fluidity of the unnoticeable changes we live now. The Möbius in a project refers to the symbol of the introspection, the eternal return or cyclicality, the infinite cycle of nature’s  endless creation and destruction, life and death.

The Möbius strip is a two-dimensional compact manifold. Through the spatial ideas project appeals to the physics search for Universe understanding. According to superstring theory, at every point in our four-dimensional space, a 6-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold is attached. Approaching Calabi-Yau manifold I’m restructuring the space. A time-space in the project is presented by video panoramas (as a reference to traditional panoramіс painting), that consists of 24-60 fragments of moving image, which is revolved, activating a mechanism of audio-visual “transmutations” (term by physicist Marie Curie). It appeals to the concept of time, where the past is permanently re-arising, shaping the future.

The project is about complicity. It raises the question: is a person a particle in the system of accelerators of global forces, or the energy of interaction investigating new values, new forms of thought and new ways of existence in the world – insisting that ‘another world is possible’ The interplay between micro- and macrosystems, between physical and social worlds explores a variety of contemporary and historical phenomena.