We are pleased that Marcellvs L. will present a film screening of his video works with a live sound-mix at OSLO10!

Since 2002 Marcellvs L. (b. 1980, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) works on the project VideoRhizome that includes over 27 short video works up to date. Within this ongoing series the artist experiments with the philosophical universe of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as an elaboration of the concept of the rhizome.

»The idea behind this is that concepts are never perfect, complete or exhausted. It is necessary to produce them and to continually connect them to the events of this world, to the here and now. By working with this concept, I affirm this reading, which is personal and thus has the force to touch the other. The series, which is basically subdivided into two parts, production and dissemination, was never an illustration of this concept, but rather the creation of a rhizomatic production and dissemination of audiovisual work. The videos do not follow a script, and a piece results primarily from the moment of recording. I seek out the interrelations between events in their contingency, which are in some cases frustrating and in others surprising. The videos thus produced are assigned a four-digit number chosen at random (for example, 0667, 5040, 8246), resulting in an unconnected sequence. This feature allows for the ongoing expansion of the series because it is not chronological, but instead full of gaps. In a second step, I open the telephone book, from the city in which I live, to a random page and determine whether there is any relationship between my current address, the address in the book and the numbering of the works. If there is, I send a tape of the video with the matching number (to the street number, the door number or the telephone number) to that address. The tapes bear no return address, only a stamp with the number of the video. In the end, it doesn’t matter who receives them, how they are received or what the purpose is. What matters is the accidental and fragile encounter between occurrence and non-occurrence: between the one who produced the images, those who can be seen in them, and the one who receives the tapes via mail. To date, I have made 27 videos and mailed 3,300 tapes.« Marcellvs L.


Image: Marcellvs L., 0667 (2003), MiniDV transferred to Hard Disk, 09 min 21 sec. Courtesy carlier | gebauer, Berlin; Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo.