ANNA PRIEDOLA

MEDIJS // MEDIUM (2016)
INTERACTIVE SOUND INSTALLATION

Interactive sound installation

Author was exploring folk beliefs and internet mythology in the piece “Medium”. A candle is often used as a sensor in esoteric practice, channeling interaction between different dimensions of time and materiality. There is deep symbolism of the candle in traditional folklore. Ancient Latvian beliefs say that the flickering of the flame signals about the presence of spirits in the room.
The spectator can summon the ghosts of the authors past by flickering of the flame of the piece with his breath. As the philosopher of phenomenology L. Wiesling suggests, every record can be considered a ghost because it depicts only the surface of the object and it never changes. It is very simple to take images and sound records, and to publish them immediately now, so every person has to encounter the ghosts of his or her past trapped in the media and technologies – his or her representations which depict the self of the past although the current self is different and changes over time. The audio material is voiced and recorded information about the author which is not coherent today but it is still available for public on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr.
While triggering the voices of the past spectator must be careful not to blow the flame out – old beliefs tell that one can severe somebodies life or scorch the wings of an angel or his own soul by blowing a candle out with his breath.

“DATU RECEPTES” UN “ĒDIENS MĀKSLĀ UN KULTŪRĀ” //
“DATA RECIPES” AND RELATED COMMUNAL ART PROJECT “FOOD IN ART AND CULTURE” (2017 – 2018)

Installations, workshops and discussions

In her Data Recipes author was exploring a local “biological” food network, the development of it, and the habits of it’s participants. According to Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory things can be social too, and trigger the development of social networks. In the project, author mapped the network and developed Data Recipes from the gathered data – exploring data as the new materiality with more than one sense.

Author later explored the sociability of food also in art-educational project “Food in Art and Culture” inviting Liepaja-locals to join Latvian and foreign artists that work with food as a theme and/or material in their art practice challenging sustainability and cultural issues. During the project, four workshops were held at a reclaimed creative district of Liepaja:

• “Cultivating Culture – Social Fermenting” (Anna Priedola, Andrew Griff Paterson, SCO/FI)

• “Food for Sustainability” (Anna Priedola, Maija Demitere, LV)

• “Data Recipes” (Anna Priedola, Mikko Lippiainen, FI)

• “Food Hackers” (Anna Priedola, Andrew Griff Paterson, SCO/FI)

  The results of the project were exibited later as part of an exhibition at the same creative district “Art as Tool for Social Change”

WALL REDRAWING #19

interactive wall projection