Two Blue Fencers är ett verk av @katarina_sylvan som just nu visas på Färgfabriken i @flat_octopus Exhibition Case. 🐙 Verket är en rörelsestudie över semifinalen i värja mellan Shin A-lam och Britta Heidemann i OS i London 2012.
Video 00:01:00:17 min, glaslåda, mdf, akrylspegel, Raspberry Pi, 4" skärm.
Konstnären beskriver verket:
"We are at the 2012 Olympics in London. Épée fencers Britta Heidemann and Shin A-lam step up from the shadows of the onlookers and onto the brightly lit podium. The match that follows demonstrates a complete melt-down of fencing rules, the technology of time-keeping, chance and the human error, leaving Shin A-l am all alone on the podium, crying under the spotlight while waiting for the judges’ verdict. All the flaws of the machinery are put on display.
Two Blue Fencers is a motion study of this series of events. Each frame from the final—and seemingly never-ending—minute of the match was printed and traced with a knife to hollow out the two athletes’ silhouettes. These paper molds were then placed on an office scanner, one by one. Blue glitter—or small hexagonal mirrors—were poured into the molds and the sheet of paper was removed to reveal the blue figures on the scanner’s glass. Each scan constitutes one frame in this animation—24 per second and 1454 in total—mimicking the rotoscoping utilised when transferring the physiognomy of moving bodies into an animated universe."
