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колокол

Videoart • Photography • Music • Installation • Painting • Graphic Design

About Me

If one is called to think of a bell, there are certain adjectives that will come to mind as our memories are stirred to recall the tones of its toll: resonance, clarity, brightness, depth, resilience, repetition.Within the deed of a single bell bounding in a belfry lies an auditory act of thunderous harmony.Suppose a short distance away another bell begins to sound. What emerges?A luminous dialogue begins to resound. From the clanging conversation between two pure and repetitive tones is born a caciphony of echoes. Subtle shades of rhythm and reason are created from this seemingly random collision of sound. Because of the underlying repetitiveness of this act it can be said that there is also something stable and consistent in it. It is almost organic, like the beating of a heart. Even if the bells sound at differeing tones and intensities, through moments of overlapping abstraction the connection is irrefutable. Yet this symphony is fleeting, it is the gift if that exact coincidence, never to be repeated precisely again.Somewhere in this anonymous dialogue echoes the common human experience as the silent observer casting the singing shadow. My work explores themes of solitary reflection and the intimate nature of ephemeral experience. It is a way of distilling and preserving the evanescent lives of instantaneous encounters commonly kept in the most secret stillness of our skins. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

Have collaborated with: Group T.R.O., Berlin: http://www.factory-berlin.de • Oleg Ikona: http://www.ikona.vze.com • Selected exhibitions: "Prospero's Library" travelling group exhibition, Russia, Itlay, UK, 2007-2008. "Art Dialogues" St.Petersburg, Russia http://www.artdialogues.narod.ru/2003/jessica-kolokol.htm • "Festival of Experimental and Performance Art" St. Petersburg, Russia http://www.performart.narod.ru/2004/kolokol.htm • "Slavic Spirit" Berlin, Germany http://www.streifler.de/slawische-seele--2826.11.2004-29_68. html • Graphic Design/Book Cover Art: First Intensity Magazine issues 16, 20, 21, Robert Kelly's "Threads," John Olsen's "Oxbow Kazoo," Richard Rathwell's "Re:The Dead Arts"

Music:

My sound pieces (for both installation and video) are a melange of incidental noises, guitar, voices (both my own and sampled bits from radio or film) and electronic rythms. The pieces are not songs per se, but soundtracks. For the most part I don't plan the pieces, rather they construct themselves through a process of coincidental layering.

Movies:

My video pieces so far are best described as "moving pictures." I begin with photographic images, digitally layered to create a series of still frames that once edited morph into a continuing visual evolution. I had the idea for this process while painting. When creating a painting there is much standing back, thinking about the next stroke, imagining what would happen if the brush cut in here or there, if a certain hue was then mixed in and so on. I could practically imagine the picture painting itself in my mind. I thought about documenting the process, stroke by stroke of the evolution of a painting. As of yet I haven't actually done this, but instead worked with my photographs in a similar way. Each video piece contains dozens of still frames transitioning one into the other to create the final result. It somehow feels close to stop-motion filming. .. "Études/Studies No.1" "Glass"

Television:

You can find my video work at http://www.youtube.com/jkolokol

Books:

I have been working with First Intensity Press since 2005. As well as having some of my work on the cover of First Intensity Magazine, I have also created cover art specifically for several books of poetry. I really enjoy this process, as the cover ideas are developed from the intimate contact with, sensitivity to and complete passion that F.I.'s editor, Lee Chapman has for the work she publishes. I usually take cues from her and riff off these ideas ( incorporating any dialogue with the authors) to create the cover design/artwork.

Heroes:

Max

My Blog

New Videos

I have posted two new videos on my page. "Lux Aeterna" is a short piece featuring music from Hans Otte's "Das Buch der Klang" "The Book of Light and Motion" is a piece that will be in a travelling exh...
Posted by :>;>:>; on Tue, 08 May 2007 09:48:00 PST

First Intensity .21

First Intensity magazine issue ..21 is now available, featuring "Silversound" photo collage on the cover. Poet John Levy commented:"I like (Kolokol's ) cover image... It has inexhaustible visual inter...
Posted by :>;>:>; on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:45:00 PST