Krisna Murti
September 22, 2011
Born in 1957, now lives and works in Jakarta.
Video Poem / e-ART-h-quake #4 are videos that do not speak about what is being screened. The two videos try to invite the audience to experience subjective “poetic experience”. Video has something symbolic in common with literal poetry. The symbol exists in picture, bodily gesture, motion and other semiotic language. Sequences and loops can be considered as rhyme and stanza. For Krisna, poetry is the moment of encounter between the world inside and the world outside.
In “Video Poem“, the body in various yoga positions is seen as representation of mental problems and not the body being disciplined and commodified in the modern world. Whereas the uninterrupted flow of the waterfall is seen as something meditative; repetition that is “beyond experience”, like uttering mantras that makes someone “beyond experience”. These two videos offer an experience of being in another space, so the viewers take some distance from their selves. What is seen visually is a lure to create memory about the essence of self and relations between an individual and essence of the natural environment, like water and soil.
