Some Photos from Fau's Exhibition

Fau Ferdinand Exhibition

 

Yoshikaze "Up-In-The-Air" Second Life Residency presents

Fau Ferdinand aka Yael Gilks

23 - 27 January 2012

@ HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden

Opening Hours: 8am - 4 pm Weekdays

Opening: 23 January Between 2pm - 4pm

Artist Talk at 2pm

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"On virtual landscapes and real feelings.

Photons, camera lens, screen, eye -  mashed then mashed again.

Are landscapes seen from afar not virtual ? I can hardly see a thing but colour anyway, unless it’s on a screen near me soon.

The shrinking field of view, that particular scene  affects me - that  bird I couldn’t save. The cat too fast and ants have spread the word. Life abounds around death.

I join in, giving up on quality  to make believe I’m really there though I was there.

Inflation and deflation of an avatar that was death before processing. Death gets pregnant by Deformation.

The avatar, as the persona, is a battlefield.

I’m what eats me.

Distress grabbed." 

(Fau Ferdinand)

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Fau Ferdinand, a.k.a. Yael Gilks, is an established Second Life performance artist, who has produced memorable works since her entry into SL in 2004.  Her work manifests metamorphosis of life, often dealing with the theme of life and death,  from one state of existence to another,  in a manner almost expressed as surreal.  Dissolving in fluidity, her subjects enter her world through the dreamscape which surrounds her Self.

During her residency at Yoshikaze, she has taken a step into a new direction, in which video/machinima proceeds not only as a mere documentation of her virtual performance but as a hybrid medium of the virtual and videoart for which she expands her theme as the end result.

Between 23 - 27 January 2012 at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden, Yoshikaze is pleased to present her first independent videowork "Bird Funeral" which she has completed during her Yoshikaze residency.  In addition the exhibition offers an opportunity to experience two additional derivative videoworks, into which "Bird Funeral" with the elements from the virtual world has metamorphosed itself through the techniques of moving image.

Currently Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks is a co-director and co-curator of SL sim Odyssey.  Her work "Bird Funeral" completed at Yoshikaze is online at http://vimeo.com/32119484.  The remains of "Bird Funeral" can be experienced inworld at Yoshikaze residency spot: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/HUMlab/84/216/701.

Curated by Goodwind Seiling/Sachiko Hayashi in collaboration with HUMlab.  The poster design by Beatrice Rosberg at HUMlab.

Yoshikaze "Up-in-the-Air" Residency (www.slurl.com/secondlife/HUMlab/95/215/351) is a Second Life residency programme run by Sachiko Hayashi together with SL HUMlab sim manager James Barrett from HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden. As part of HUMlab, its 3264 sqm land in Second Life supports SL artists in their pursuit of virtual art practices and researches.  For inquiries, please contact: goodwind.seiling@gmail.com.

Yoshikaze is funded and hosted by HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden.

Yoshikaze blog: http://yoshikaze.blogspot.com
Yoshikaze vimeo: http://vimeo.com/yoshikaze

Bird Funeral

Far from perfect and yet complete.

Flying to Perth tomorrow, taking my video camera and dat tape with me, hoping to field record

for the sound track and mix in some rl video of the actual desert.

Getting there, first clip online

http://vimeo.com/29658414

First Steps

The creation of a fake mountain, hand painting it in Blender, cost me 3/4 of the prims allowance. So I'll use sculpties for doing details.

Anticipating a trip to Kalbari, as north of the west as I'll probably ever go.

If I'll roll on the ground would it paint me?

Fau Ferdinand - Yoshikaze's New Artist-in-Residence

Yoshikaze is pleased to announce Fau Ferdinand as our next artist-in-residence. Fau has been a well-known SL artist and, as the co-director of odyssey, one of the driving forces of artists' community in Second Life.

She will occupy our Yoshikaze studio from 15 September to 30 November, during which she will be exploring:

The persona as a battle field of conflicting ideas and  the avatar as a representation of these conflicts.
Documentation of the learning process of external tools and the creation of a video art piece, being both sides of the camera.

We look forward to wonderful works she will be producing at the Yoshikaze studio during her residency.

Fau Ferdinand:

2004 – Joined Second Life, opened own digital paintings gallery – “p’ART’icle  Accelerator”

2006 – Joined Odyssey. took part at first “Exhibit A” group exhibition live performance, “All N00bs Are Sailors”, at Notice Gallery, London,  then later at Vancouver LIVE biennial  of performance art.

Joined “Second Front”, an acclaimed performance art group based in Second Life.

2007 to 2009 –  Second Front performs extensively

Worked with Berardo Carboni,  an Italian film director on a feature length machinima “VolaVola”.

2010 – on going -  Odyssey co - director and co -curator with Lizsolo Mathilde