During the summer of 2006 I produced extensive video footage to show the significance of pure ecological form that I found in a strictly protected part of the Bialowieza Forest in Poland. I intended to reassess several influential aesthetic, philosophical and cultural trends especially those that resonate with the beliefs of Edmund Burke, Johan Gottlieb Fichte or Arthur Schopenhauer, who theorized influentially about landscape, the sublime, and human will. In this projected, I am concerned with the image of nature without humans.
The Bialowieza Forest is the last evidence of the primeval wood that exists on both sides of the border of Poland and Belarus and is home to the ancient oak, maple, ash and linden trees that reach up to 140 feet above the ground. The forest is located and crosses the border at 52 42 N 23 52 E. This lowland is full of ferns, swamps, huge fungi, and home to countless flora and fauna. Half a million acres of the forest provides a hint to how the region might be if humans had not intervened: without them, forests like this would still cover Europe extending all the way to Ural.
Some forms of beauty are rare. The project is a homage to this kind of beauty but also it is a parody made at the expense of humans, civilization and over-population. I intend to confront the viewing of the pristine video footage (forest) with surveillance technology, statistical analysis and sensor-based interactivity (gallery). This project will be to be presented as two channel interactive video projection.Short Vitae
Perzynski’s work focuses on the question of art's interdisciplinary
character including the philosophies of communicative action, social pragmatism,
and individual invention. He has worked with installation art since 1978,
and in 1990, expanded toward sound, video, sensors and body-based interactivity. His
works have been presented in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Thailand,
Brazil, Greece, Israel and the United States. He has produced works of art
that include computer technology, video, sound, and architectural settings.
He had been an artists in residence in Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
in 1991 and Phra Phrombhichitr, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand in
2003.
