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Chair et Métal - Veille Planétaire d'Art en Réseau, octobre
2002
Selection : Ulchiro / Nicolas Clauss and Jean-Jacques Birgé
I was looking for a sense of a threshold to a phantasm,
to a virtual landscape whose textures and ambiguities would trigger a
connection to memories and desires. I chose both these works in the hopes
that they might be considered together, one as a gloss on the other. Ulchiro
recalls Kurosawa and the sets of a large, penumbral dance stage. The character
multiplies within himself or within oneself like a neural patient trapped
in the advanced stages of an oblique, incisive illness whose origins and
advance are equally obscure. Likewise in The Inner City, it is as if the
movements of Ulchiro are choreographed through the markings and stains
left by movement through a delirious city, perhaps one that cannot be
visited except in dreams. I like the feeling of drawing, both interactive
and noninteractive, as if to animate the phenomenological spaces of urban
shadowlands. Christina Mc-Phee
