Breathing

Breathing, vertigo and falling define distinguishing aesthetics of contemporary video. Showing the body in performance, telling of its vulnerability, imperilling it in an effort to reach irreconcilable tresholds accentuate the problems of balance evinced by slow motion, fast motion, and freeze-frames. Can we speak of uses or convergences? The author muddles such tracks by dealing with performance and video not in term of disciplines, but as an affinity between stories, fields of knowledge, and images - wether one lives in Amsterdam, Cologne, Montreal or Igloolik.