Frente al vacío cuerpos, espacios y gestos en el videoarte

Abstract

The article focuses on the concept of “video work staging”, in which the body
and the space are related in various ways, sometimes elusive, sometimes close to their very
existence as empty gestures without apparent consequences within a possible story linked
to the logic of causality. The idea is then to establish and develop a reflection on those
expressive video modes, relating them to the registration modes of the body and the space
in the cinematic image of the narrative tradition.Traditionally dominant film formats establish standardized ways of linking bodies and
spaces according to a functional logic that responds to a classic biases narration. In the
field of video, on the other hand, the inscription of the body in space through actions has
been detached from those narrative needs, so their functions are expanded in a heterogeneous search that faces the spectator to a variety of gestures that often only responds to
his own existence. Empty gestures. Useless actions. Unjustified situations. Bodies (human
or animal) and spaces that establish relations within an image that deprives them of a
perfectly functional clarity.
This work aims to relate the expressive ways of film and video related to that specific topic,
emphasizing the relationship established between the spectator and the work. From a brief
historical survey of both media that serves to put into perspective the addressed axis, the
text will focus on contemporary argentine videographers whose work sets itself a reflection
on the linking of body, space, and the look involved. They will be related to other international works and Khourian Hernán, Andrés Denegri, Toia Bonino and Javier Plano videos.