KAIROS - Travels in Turkey - Thoughts on
Time
A Video Art Program by Carol Goss
The program KAIROS cannot be understood on a literal level. It
presupposes
that images are a language of the right brain, decipherable by the
unconscious.
Verbal language content is used to preoccupy the linear, conscious
channels
of the viewer's brain. The viewer is then able to free-associate
with the
visual content. This pre-cognitive knowing bypasses third party
narrative
interference and permits the viewer to communicate directly with the
original
image makers. Time is collapsed into first hand experience.
"Kairos" is the Greek word for "epochal time" or a "changing of the
gods",
for which there is no equivalent in English, because the cultural
memory
of that language group is too brief. Turkey (Anatolia) has had
continuous
city-state culture for over 10,000 years. Its human occupants have
come
from Asia, Europe, and the Persian/Arabian penninsula. It is on the
edge
of: West/East; urban/nomad; Christian/Muslim/Jewish;
eunuch/hermaphrodite;
matriarchal/partriarchal; figurative/geometric; modern/prehistoric.
In 1990 Carol Goss was invited to give a lecture and exhibit on
"Electronic
Painting" at the Selcuk Universitesi in Konya, Turkey. Her
residency there
for a month allowed her to record video, 35mm slides, b/w print
film and
keep a journal. She traveled from as far east at Urgup, and back
through
Ankara, Ephesus, Izmir, and Pergamon to Istanbul, one month before
the
outbreak of the Gulf War. These recordings are the primary source
material
for KAIROS.
KAIROS technically employs verbal threads which are
intentionally
unrelated to the visual track . These threads serve as an anchor
providing
linear security to the viewer, while they are left visually
suggestible.
In order to sustain the desired image density, all source materials
must
be digitized. Multiple layering, including short, subliminal edits
require
the use of a non-linear editing system.
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