The left hand of darkness / Stakra / Sara Bonaventura

The left hand of darkness“Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death… like hands joined together”Ursula K. Le Guin, The left hand of darknessThis is a tribute to Vasulka, recording in real time my left hand while the right hand was adjusting knobs and patching oscillators, of a Jones Raster Scan, similar to the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, built by Dave Jones and powered by Signal Culture. It is a process of prosthetization in which a familiar part of the body becomes alien, sucked by the uncanny vortex of the machines, in which we believe to see a glimpse of creation, when two index fingers touch each others, but the triangulation ends up with an unsettling unity. In Mandarin: 孤掌难鸣 (It’s hard to clap with only one hand). Sountrack: Handplant, by EVN, Oh Cruel Science album, Enklav label
StakraIt’s a mystical and hallucinatory journey of a resilient subject, not yet completely seduced by the machines; entangled in their challenging system, but radiating dynamism while struggling for self determination.
Getting lost, falling apart, splitting, vanishing and resetting. Finding balance in between. The performer is Annamaria Ajmone. Soundtrack by Von Tesla. A choreography processed with analog synths and a wobbulator, a modified monitor known as Paik Raster Manipulation Unit, at Signal Culture.Soundtrack: Von Tesla
Sara Bonaventura is an Italian visual artist. As independent videographer she has been collaborating with performers and musicians, directing clips, ads, curating visuals in clubs. Her video works have been screened worldwide; at the Anthology Film Archives, for Other Cinema at San Francisco ATA Gallery, at the San Francisco Short Film Festival, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Miami New Media festival, the Cinemateca do MAM in Rio for Dobra Festival, the MOMus in Thessaloniki for Videolands and more. She won the Veneto Region Award at the 10th Lago Film Fest in 2014 and a merit for the 2019 Sino per NIIO Illumination Art Prizes, with one of her work displayed in Hong Kong in one of the world biggest public screen; she has been selected for several residencies, ie in 2016 by Joan Jonas at Fundacion Botin (Spain). Recently selected for the ISEA 2019, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts, in South Korea. http://www.s-a-r-a-h.it/https://www.instagram.com/bonaventurasara/https://www.facebook.com/bonaventura.sara