...the stranger and the white noise
To create this project I have carried out interviews and collected hundreds of hand gestures from several countries around the world. I find gestural language fascinating: it is an accurate metaphor for a culture’s personality and richness, as well as a demonstration of the speakers’ idiosyncrasy. It is both a very touching part of a language and a very difficult matter for strangers to internalise. In "…the stranger and the white noise" gestures have sometimes been taken out of context. This was done to keep the gestures’ meanings away from the spotlight and, consequently, highlight movement and corporal expression to build non-intentional units of meaning that can be interpreted in different ways depending on the cultural background of every spectator.
"…the stranger and the white noise" talks about «gestörte Kommunikation», that is the difficulties found in situations in which one of the individuals is not communicating in their mother tongue and is alien to the dominant culture. The work is about those misunderstandings and subtle nuances that are lost or become corrupted during the transmission. It is about cultural identity and the importance of gender roles in communication. It is about how a small part of personality is lost when communicating in a different language, and how a new one is built at the same time. It is about the search of a new spontaneity. It is about the expansion of cultural, social and emotional horizons. It is about impotence, curiosity; about how both fun and challenging it is to deal with integration day after day.
01: Stereo
02: Bemerkung: Ich stelle von 17.10-19.11 bei der ENTER Plattform im DOCK aus. Die Arbeit ist eine 3-Kanal Installation. Hier habe ich eine 1-Kanal Version als Muster hochgeladen. Auf Anfrage kann ich auch die einzelne Kanäle schicken.
03: www.elia-navarro.com
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Queries
Summe2017 catalog - mediathek catalog - associated catalog - Artists catalog - HGKplus
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- DateAdded
- 2018-03-12T08:03:02Z
- DateModified
- 2020-08-17T08:23:27Z
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- AZUQWMAK
- Rights
- CC-BY
- RunningTime
- 6'16"