VIDEOBAR #86 : “Narcissus or the prevented mirror”
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VIDEOFORMES presents :
“Narcissus or the prevented mirror” by Oscar A
Performative installation
Thursday, July 8 | 6:30 pm > 8 pm
Chapelle de l’Oratoire | Free access
“Narcissus or the prevented mirror”
Oscar A
Performative installation | 2021
Oscar A evolves as a multidisciplinary artist, between composition and contemporary art, with a practice ranging from installation to painting. The installation is often performative, involving the public. It invites an aesthetic experience that solicits our senses, our intelligence and our cultures. The artist’s research consists in creating a common language beyond the disciplines, characterized by realizations that take care of the resources solicited and incite new attitudes: they favor shared reflection, exchange.
As part of VIDEOBAR #86, installations and works from the Narcissus cycle produced during Oscar A’s VIDEOFORMES residency at the Chenevières College in Jaligny-sur-Besbre will be presented, as well as a video, sound and water performance produced during the week spent in residence at the Oratory Chapel.
“In the myth of Narcissus and Echo by Ovid, Narcissus sees his reflection and wants to catch it. When he catches it, it disappears. He cries, his reflection disappears again under the tears. Can we only catch a reflection of ourselves? I like this myth in the sense that it questions our capacity to discover who we are as an indivisible being in a hyper-media world that often overtakes us. I have therefore created devices to disturb our reflection, through this performance it is the fascination for this movement of abyss that I hope to give to feel.” – Oscar A.
Oscar A lives between Saint-Etienne and Annecy and creates installations, video and sound works with a practice ranging from new technologies to drawing. In his work, he invites the public to share a sensitive experience during new collective rites.
This experience is composed and evolving: the visitor goes through different states during his journey in the installations and exhibitions. For this, he is interested in cognitive and behavioral sciences.
The necessary keys to undo our daily conditioning are left to the visitors who hold a large part of responsibility in the future of the work. These shared experimental and reflective approaches are essential to him. They invite him to invent new languages in the utopia of a universal and transdisciplinary syntax.
Oscar A is a performer, teacher and composer with several master’s degrees from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon and the Faculty of Art of Saint-Étienne. His experience in digital arts and educational sciences explains in part his practice which is expressed by devices where the public marks the partial completion of the work (Bruissements, Nénuphars).
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