»INTROSPECTION: KALEIDOSCOPIC GAZE & SPIRAL FLOATING« 
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»INTROSPECTION: KALEIDOSCOPIC GAZE & SPIRAL FLOATING«, 2010
Co-Workers & Funding:
Scanner – Robin Rimbaud (sound)Dr. Blaž Koritnik, dr. Andrej Sirnik, Clinical Institute of Radiology, University Medical Center Ljubljana (radiology)
Miloš Bašin (curator); MOL - City of Ljubljana; Bežigrad Gallery MGML; Ministry of Culture RS
Uršula Berlot, Kaleidoscopic Gaze, 2010
video projection onto an image on a mirror (video loop 6′); two mirrors (90 x 180 cm; 90 x 110 cm), foil covering, projection and reflected light
Site specific video installation; variable dimensions
Uršula Berlot, Spiral Floating, 2010
video projection onto a semitransparent screen (video loop 6′); two plexiglass screens (110 x 130 cm), foil covering, projection and reflected light
Site specific video installation; variable dimensions
Technology
Material
folio on plexiglass, mirrorMethod
Video projection, laser cut technology
Descriptions & Essays
Uršula Berlot 20-04-2020
The installations Kaleidoscopic Gaze and Spiral Floating are based on digitally- processed radiological images of my brain activity while contemplating Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema, which was conceived as an optic dispositive inducing a four-dimensional spatial-temporal perceptive experience in the viewer (by alternating the concave and convex effects of spiral swirling). The kaleidoscopic pattern of the video aims to similarly expand the viewer’s perception and consciousness; the repetitive, hypnotic pattern of light projected onto the image reflected by a mirror produces a layering of fractally-fragmented reflections, that is, a virtual multi-dimensional space in motion. – Uršula Berlot, 2010
'Behind the appearance of objective reality we find hidden subjective images, which are the result of the intense personal dynamics of experiencing and reliving reality. This experience of reliving is special and subjective. The videos (Introspection) depict the reality of emotional experience, which is shown in the changing colouring of the surfaces detected by the radiological medical apparatus. These renderings characteristically contain the visualisation of the artist’s emotional response to a particular work of art and particular selection of colours. The darkness of space highlights kaleidoscopic images which are simultaneously located in indefinite space: as in spaces of reminiscing, contemplating and looking with closed eyes. The phenomenon of shifting patterns can be understood in terms of duplications and mirror reflections of the spiritual in the visual. The internal, spiritual world is projected onto the double exterior – that of visual images and that of the space in which the image itself is located. - Miloš Bašin, Introspection, 2010 (excerpt)
Uršula Berlot: INTROSPECTION: KALEIDOSCOPIC GAZE & SPIRAL FLOATING, 20-04-2020, in: Archive of Digital Art The installations Kaleidoscopic Gaze and Spiral Floating are based on digitally- processed radiological images of my brain activity while contemplating Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema, which was conceived as an optic dispositive inducing a four-dimensional spatial-temporal perceptive experience in the viewer (by alternating the concave and convex effects of spiral swirling). The kaleidoscopic pattern of the video aims to similarly expand the viewer’s perception and consciousness; the repetitive, hypnotic pattern of light projected onto the image reflected by a mirror produces a layering of fractally-fragmented reflections, that is, a virtual multi-dimensional space in motion. – Uršula Berlot, 2010
'Behind the appearance of objective reality we find hidden subjective images, which are the result of the intense personal dynamics of experiencing and reliving reality. This experience of reliving is special and subjective. The videos (Introspection) depict the reality of emotional experience, which is shown in the changing colouring of the surfaces detected by the radiological medical apparatus. These renderings characteristically contain the visualisation of the artist’s emotional response to a particular work of art and particular selection of colours. The darkness of space highlights kaleidoscopic images which are simultaneously located in indefinite space: as in spaces of reminiscing, contemplating and looking with closed eyes. The phenomenon of shifting patterns can be understood in terms of duplications and mirror reflections of the spiritual in the visual. The internal, spiritual world is projected onto the double exterior – that of visual images and that of the space in which the image itself is located. - Miloš Bašin, Introspection, 2010 (excerpt)
Literature
Bašin, Miloš. »Uršula Berlot: Introspekcija/Introspection.« Bežigrajska Gallery 2, 1st. – 29th of September 2010. Ljubljana: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (http://www.ursulaberlot.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Bašin.-Introspection-catalogue.-2010.pdf 2010).
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