
Melina Peña
Interdisciplinary/Action Artist
TIME BOMB
Video Performance
Duration: 6:30 min
Location: New Rail Station, Skopje Macedonia. Brutalist architecture by Kenzo Tange.
Year: 2017
Camera: Yuriko Sasaoka
In Residency @ Brashnar Artist-in-Residence (BAIR), Skopje Macedonia
TIME BODY
Video Performance
Duration: 7:31 min
Year: 2017
Camera: Yuriko Sasaoka
In Residency @ Brashnar Artist-in-Residence (BAIR), Skopje Macedonia
Inspired by the Brutalist architecture in the city of Skopje and its rural areas within the city; my fascination/obsession with walking, a basic action which becomes a slow focused endless walk where the body and mind transforms through its own path. In Time BOMB, Kenzo Tangue´s Railway station sets the path in this solitude present, towards an unknown future in search of change. TIME BODY adds adrenaline to the walk as the path is through a hanging bridge full of holes and loose wooden panels. The adrenaline on this bumpy path gives rise to fear and life as the base towards change and surprises on what is to come.
The sound on both videos or live recordings taken through my stay in Skopje and other regions within Macedonia.
These video performances were created to be shown simultaneously facing one another but can also be shown individually.