Sunday 22 December 2013

I am happy to present artist and film maker 

Fred L'Epee 

Next follows:

an artist statement, 

Algorithm modulus of Image, a text by Fred L'Epee 

 - and an interview.

Fred L’Epee - filmmaker - artist statement




Fred L’Epee
Filmmaker


Artist Statement



“In my personal path as artist, I always see our being as an eternal procession. We belong to the process of the geometry of universe. Abstraction with forms and indefinite lines towards an ultimately unknown destination. The narrative of human being. As a post- atomic myth or pre-war blues. We always choose the sense of belonging and farewell.

We belong of our movements which are expansion of our cycles. The structure of our human geometry. Time is the rotation of our existence.

As well the distance is a perpetual geometry which controlling our way of life, the perception of our cogitation. In response, we create the movement. Through this movement, we use the memory into our psycho- affective system in the purpose to imagine our freedom, our cries, our drifts, our social struggles. In exile, all we are. We belong to this path. And we use it as an ultimate form of being. The Ideal is definitely established.

This movement is related to the circulation of our emotional system. Through this, here is the path of our metamorphosis. Without this; world is nothing.”


WEB                       www.lepee.net

NEWS                     www.fredlepee.org

HELICON FILMS   https://vimeo.com/channels/heliconfilms








Algorithm modulus of Image by Fred L’Epee




Algorithm modulus of Image
Aspect   Concept   Mediation


The experimental visual art is currently a cultural necessity in the sociological concept of our being. This is an emotional matrix as well as in our need for identity in parallel to our contemporary expression.

In addition to its form and its content, experimental visual art is an alternative tool that allows common
access and who redefined the archaic laws of an elitist cinema. Touching the image becomes perception, animation, composition of the emotional decomposition.

Visual art also allows to create neo-movements such as physical, mental, psychological; and metaphysical.

Attractiveness  Interactivity  Expressiveness

It is a transdisciplinary medium conveying our emotions by its multi-disciplinary forms and opening   
important gates in our current culture. Its design deliberating the simultaneous and spontaneous perspectives in perfectly consistent with our algorithm lifestyle.

The image is an  immutable human ressource. In its generality, Visual experimentation is a transposition which alterates into an evolutive abstraction. The creation and its renaissance. Genesis.  Art evolving, enables us to evolve in a total parallel. Perpetual oxygenation for our mind and our body.

In this impossible world, experimental visual arts allows us the possibility. The image is a force field whose experimental uses have no gravity. Paradox for a world order. The cause of a vital need of a necessity for a language and common access. Currently, this is what we seek.  Social interaction; and cultural connectivity are key words. Here is the art mediator.

‘The Image of the awake consciousness’.







Fred L'Epee
Artist + Film maker



WEB                       www.lepee.net

NEWS                     www.fredlepee.org

HELICON FILMS   https://vimeo.com/channels/heliconfilms



Interview with Fred L'Epee






Monday 16 December 2013

His legs wobbled under him


It's happening to me again.
The soft-drink stand fell into bits. Molecules. He saw the molecules,
colorless, without qualities, that made it up. Then he saw through, into the space
beyond it; he saw the hill behind, the trees and sky. He saw the soft-drink stand
go out of existence, along with the counter man, the cash register, the big
dispenser of orange drink, the taps for Coke and root beer, the ice-chests of
bottles, the hot dog broiler, the jars of mustard, the shelves of cones, the row of
heavy round metal lids under which were the different ice creams.
In its place was a slip of paper. He reached out his hand and took hold of
the slip of paper. On it was printing, block letters.
SOFT-DRINK STAND
Turning away, he unsteadily walked back, past children playing, past the
benches and the old people. As he walked he put his hand into his coat pocket
and found the metal box he kept there.
He halted, opened the box, looked down at the slips of paper already in it.
Then he added the new one.
Six in all. Six times.
His legs wobbled under him and on his face particles of cold seemed to
form. Ice slid down into his collar, past his green knit tie.
He made his way down the slope, to Junie.

Time out of Joint, Philip K. Dick, 1959

Friday 13 December 2013

Stills from NOBODY IS INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE, video, Lars Buchardt 2011





https://vimeo.com/35461202

FRIENDLY FIRE - List used in the installation Friendly Fire, 2003, a collaboration by Johanna Lassenius, Peter Frimand, Iben Dalgaard and Lars Buchardt

Fragment (text on wall) shown at 
The Map is not the Territory,
Esbjerg Art Museum  2008

http://www.eskum.dk/Default.aspx?ID=83





















pacification
aerial ordnance
trench interment
post-hostile period
interdictional nonsuccumbers
arbitrary deprivation of life
nation building
armed reconnaissance
peacekeeping
carefully targeted actions
softening
deconflicting the airspace
encourage the enemy on all sides
war on terror
collateral damage
air supremacy
war theater
psychological consolidation activities
vertically deployed anti-personel devices
servicing the target
counterforce exchange
limited nuclear war
crisis management
hemispheric hygiene
peacebuilding
violence processing
directive improvement
exfiltration
force package
psychological operations approach
contaminated remains
fourth generation warfare
friendly fire
aversion therapy
defense
pre-hostility
casualty
peace enforcement
good neighbor policy
health alteration
counterinsurgency
pre-emptive self-defense
aggressive defense
pre-emptive strike
hyperwar
controlled flight into terrain
nationbuilders
incontinent ordnance
intervention
national security
kinetic energy penetrators
operation
peacemakers
area denial munitions
defoliant operation
air support
military necessity
soft targets
executive action
military police action
non-hostile casualty
target opportunity
post-traumatic stress disorder
operation infinite justice
health alteration commitee
muscular multilateralism
proactive measures
riot control agent
shock and awe
operational exhaustion
surgical strike
target audience
compliance assistance officers
war-fighting rationality
deferred maintenance
wet work
accidental delivery of ordnance equipment
crew transfer containers
energized fences


Images and text here:

http://www.lars-buchardt.dk/Friendly%20Fire.htm

Related work, Doublethink / Dobbelttænk

http://www.lars-buchardt.dk/Dobbelttaenk.htm

Anti-Camouflage

Anti-Camouflage, 2011




Still from the video

The Synthetic Quality

Watch here:

https://vimeo.com/69307497

www.lars-buchardt.dk

Words Fall - a short video by Lars Buchardt, 2012


















Inspired by Politics and the English Language, George Orwell, 1946l




In-between kings


The Synthetic Quality

Still (tegning/drawing) From the video The Synthetic Quality





















The Synthetic Quality

The work is made entirely from still images.
It deals with the phenomenon of Verfremdung and demonstrates principles
of “set-ups”; numerous images and sequences are visualisations of a kind of scene 
changing and displacements in both time and space – as when colours change by means 
of a trick, theatrical illusion, or sleight of hand, or, for instance, when the sky above a hill
suddenly turns black as if a set piece was removed by an invisible stage hand. The
soundtrack plays a part in all this, certain sounds are completely out of synch or
seemingly arbitrary; the sound of water, for instance, a repeated motif, is without
obvious logical connection to the sequence of images. There are also sounds that 
seem to come from behind the set such as the sound of keys locking a door and footsteps 
down a stairway; maybe these sounds are made by a scene technician locking the place up and
going down the stairs - and home.
The video deals not only with itself but also with the manipulative and fake methods that we are 
all presented with and subjected to in almost all visual narratives in mainstream culture in which 
all elements, no matter how alien they are to one another, are brought together in a synthesis 
that, on the face of it, is persuasive and “true”.
Lars Buchardt, 2013.




















Watch here:
https://vimeo.com/69307497


More:
http://www.sherinnajjar.com/en/exhibition/accumulations_a_themed_video_art_exhibition_curated_by_sabin_bors/work/lbv_3



Galerie Sherin Najjar, Berlin (videos shown both inside and outside the gallery )































Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 
http://www.faz.net/asv/blinkvideo/accumulations-12160673.html