{"id":8302,"date":"2007-05-23T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2025-02-11T12:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:43:37","slug":"ceasural-variations-i-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2007\/05\/23\/ceasural-variations-i-ii\/8302","title":{"rendered":"CEASURAL VARIATIONS I & II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ceasural Variations I & II<\/strong><\/em>
<\/em><\/strong>Shown at: Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2007-08) |Re:Frame, Lowave, Paris (2009)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Duration, Ceasural 1: 03:18; Ceasural 2: 3:53<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Two short video meditations set in the post-industrial landscape of the steel town of Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memory, the permanence of steel, the impermanence of industry and an invocation of the silent aftermath of decades of labour mark a steady measure of the flow of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within these brackets, an instance of machinic immobility; a caesural, a brief interval between shifts.  A time to stand, wait, observe and remember. Awaiting premonitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Premonition strikes, strikes once, and then once in a while.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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