Funambulista.
Interactive Installation.
Funambulista is a playful installation about the commercial and political intrusions we experience daily in our minds in the digital era. The piece invites the user to be a tight rope walker traveling precariously over Europe.
The installation was created in the context of the 15M movement in Spain and the austerity memoranda imposed across Southern Europe. Visitors balance on a metal bar mounted above a Google Earth projection, walking from Barcelona to Brussels, tracing the political geography of decisions made far from those who bear their consequences. Stepping off the bar zooms into those coordinates, triggering audiovisual content about the legal, commercial and political conditions of that place: the regulations and obligations we accepted as citizens of a debt-ridden Europe.
Artist: Eva Domènech.
Year: 2013.
Collaborators and support:
Tony Higuchi, Philippe Bertrand, Jordi Planas, Chinos International CC
News:
[EN] "The exhibition's main objective is to take interim stock of the most prominent tendencies in contemporary art in the first decade of the 21st century whose works are directly or indirectly influenced by the new languages of digital media, social network cultures, and networking processes—both in a formal and conceptual as well as in an aesthetic sense..."
Funambulista in Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst. Germany.
[EN] "This installation invites the user to tightrope walk across a balance beam that passes through unstable regions of the world, reproduced on the floor by Google Earth. Funambulista is an exploration of social, economic, political and moral instability in the world in which we live and the way we interact with it..."
Funambulista in Sónar 2013.
[ES] "En Market Lab destaca la presencia de Funambulista, una instalación interactiva de Eva Domènech, producida en el Master Universitario de Artes Digitales de IDEC (Universidad Pompeu Fabra). La pieza invita el usuario a convertirse en un funambulista, caminando sobre una barra de equilibrio que atraviesa las regiones inestables del mundo..."
El arte en la Edad del Silicio. El País.
[ES] "La catalana Eva Domènech es la artífice de otra de las instalaciones estrella que, bautizada con el nombre de 'Funambulista', invita a los presentes a subirse a una barra metálica a la vez que en el suelo se proyecta un mapa mundial gigante que se desplaza por ciudades y países al ritmo de los pasos del supuesto acróbata..."
La vanguardia
