Bergsonist - As If Reality? | June 11th, 2022
Bergsonist "As If Reality?", 2022
Duration: 9:08 minutes
Video & Music Composition by Bergsonist
Commissioned by Issue Project Room x Harvestworks
Friday, June 10th, 8pm ET & Saturday, June 11th, 3pm ET, ISSUE & Harvestworks are pleased to present two new works from multi-disciplinary artist, musician, designer and 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Selwa Abd (Bergsonist). The June 10th program features the premiere of a new video work streamed on the ISSUE website. The June 11th program is an outdoor performance and soundscape taking place within Harvestworks’ Art and Technology Program at Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island.
Each of these presentations are works-in-progress that reference David Chalmers book “Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy,” and follow a creative approach based on intuition & fragment-based systems. According to Chalmers, as the physical world degrades, virtual worlds will provide us with new landscapes and new possibilities. Selwa’s new works are interested in building worlds (sonic & visual) as simulations set up for extending creative research and speculations on the future that awaits us. Selwa has noted that “I've always been working in fragments, whether in design or music,” and her work often delves into a prolific archive of hours of sonic and visual exploration. Often working with micro-drafts that become essential toward assembling later works, Selwa focuses on a conceptual use of fragments and intuition as ways of altering scales of perception to further understand sonic and visual mediums. These fragments are explorations scaled within the tensions between the actual/virtual that have become a signature of the “Bergsonist” project.