ca 10min, Vienna 2013
Three people are sitting in a room and dining at a set table.
During the dinner the things at the table change their size constantly.
Even the people appear disproportional, even more through the accentuation of some body parts using magnifying lenses.
In the background small fishes are swimming through the room.
Mechanism to smell artificial flowers
Installation, Italy 2016
This Installation is based on a reinterpretation of Bruno Munari’s “ Macchine ”, which was made for the Italian Culture Institute of Merano. Artificial Flowers evoke smells like Rain,Fruits, Coffee,Forest,Candy’s...
Performance in Public Space, Video ca. 12 min, Tokyo 2009
This Performance takes place in a garbage corner in Tokyo’s district of Taito-ku, which was trans- formed in a clean white space. A white covered table is in the center, where 15 white painted fishes get chopped. During the preparation of the food the red blood gets mixed with the white paint. (The colors of the Japanese flag). More and more colors like pink and brown start emerging. The performance obtains the aesthetics of painted canvas trough the mixture of colors, while the fishes get analytically dissected and arranged in little cruel servings of Sashimi and served in white cups on the floor next to the table.
Light objects, Italy 2015
Ellypsoids are lamps made out of Ceramics.
These light objects have a playful vision on functionality.
Only one switch works. But which one?
Video/Sound: Monica Freyer, Philipp Luftensteiner, Bernhard Zösmayr
Installation/ Performance: Clara Agnelli, Milan Mladenovic, Sanja Veličkovic,
Kunsthalle Projectspace, Vienna 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F8W2Ca3sHc&t=49s
Person1 pours lead, and according to the leads shape wich forms, locks, placed beforehand on a table are opened and closed:
If the locks are closed, Person3 sits on a stool, then a wire, connected to the knee of Person4 via dental braces, hoists his/her leg aloft.
Person4 in recumbent position, then begins to beat his/her head against the sides of a metal crate.
If the locks are opened, Person2 cranks up the water and switches several mixers on.Person3 now shakes his/her head, as more and more foam spits from the mixer bowls. the water, flowing unstoppably from the hoses pours on the foot of Person4.
These events repeat themselves- embedded in projected visuals and with the appropiate soundscape- indefinetely...
Sound Sources are: the Lead being poured, welding wire, metal crate,foam/mixer, locks and water. Two people work live on the Video and two on the sound.
Videoperformance, ca. 9 min, Vienna, 2011
A person in black finds a apparently lifeless other person in an almost empty room where a clock and a metronome are ticking on a table. He takes her with him into another dark room. He places her in front of a hanging table, on a chair and sits down behind her. His body disappears in the back- ground and he starts to remove everything from her by moving her hands like a puppet master while she wakes up but doesn’t have the control of her body. He removes everything and only their heads stay visible.
Installation, Bregenz 2011
This installation on the topic of light was raised for the Künstlerhaus in Bregenz, Austria. 19 Hong Kong market lamps are hanging from the ceiling with a chain as a pull switch. When you pull on one of the lamps chains one of the lamps goes on or off ... in this light labyrinth it is almost impossible to come to rest ...
Sottosopra
Installation, Italy 2015
In this Intervention a room of a traditional South Tirolean House was filled with receipts, collected by the artist during a period of over 3 years.
HUMO / Smoke, short film 2018, duration: 8 min
HUMO tells a dreamlike story of smoke in the city, of burning fields, fireplaces and traditional rites. The human eye is simply fooled by the smoke - everything is engulfed by it and perception becomes blurred. The performers, the places and the lights emerge, become visible and disappear again in the fog. In this way, the smoke is both the narrator and the destroyer of his story. The intangible and mythological becomes the constituent element of identity and meaning-making.
In collaboration with the Es Gallery and the Chef Lorenzo Barbasetti di Prun the upper space of the Gallery ES was transformed into a restaurant for five evenings. Every evening 12 people could join the dinners on reservation and become part of a performance where gastronomy is an art form embedded in an art Installation. The five courses of this intriguing tasting were served on little metal sheets and eaten with only the hands. The Installation reminds a indoor grow room and provokes a sense of groundlessness as well as a distortion of perception of time. An italian classic car acts as the main light source and creates kaleidoscopic effects inside the room with its lights.
Video ca. 22 min.
The Orphic Egg is a short movie told in three chapters.
The Cosmic Egg, Yolk, The New Human
The Movie is in Production and will be released in 2018.
www.clara-agnelli.com/toe
Exhibition as part of Re-Open, culture in shop windows
1.10 -30.10.2020
“How to fall asleep and discover the unconscious garden” is the title of this multimedia installation in a temporarily empty shop in Merano, Italy.
Installation with printed adhesive film, plants, Fresnel lens, UV lamp, video installation on monitor.
The installation casts a surreal look into the interior of a locked garden, where perceptions of reality and dream mingle in an unfamiliar color spectrum. Just as bees experience the environment in UV colors, drawings and plant studies raise questions about the perception of color, dimensions and substance in the familiar flora. Passengers are invited in taking a closer look through portholes were a looped video shows a flower growing out of his glass cage over and over, a little plant shows her nature in UV light in a different color spectrum and a giant drawing of a oversized carnivorous plant awaits them.
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