Riccardo Matlakas, artista (Italia, Napoli)
"Time and Space as frame of experience", performance
Dalle ore 00:00 (ora italiana) del 31 MARZO alle ore 24:00 del APRILE 2020 sarà possibile visionare in esclusiva alcune opere di artisti italiani e stranieri appartenenti al mondo della performance art. Si tratta di azioni inedite che sono state presentante presso musei, gallerie e festival. La libera visualizzazione nasce allo scopo di rendere l’arte accessibile a tutti: infatti in vista delle restrizioni per contenere l’emergenza Covid-19, per ragioni di sicurezza, i luoghi della cultura sono al momento chiusi.
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Time as perimeter, containing an empty space in the middle. The frame of the time I am talking about is not just an out line. That frame contains a 'centripetal void' and on its outside a 'centrifugal void'. I see the centripetal part of the time frame a place where all the experiences can be remembered and mapped (exploring the centripetal void is crucial in order to bring experience to clarity). If inside the time frame there is emptiness what's outside of it? Perhaps an extension of what is inside that frame...void. The two voids get filled up of experiences, but I see in them no space for time, time does not exist there, but experience does. In the centrifugal part as I above mentioned experiences can be remembered, when in the centrifugal part, experiences are only sensed but lost and cannot be recalled (see image below).
When we keep on the line, we walk securely somewhere where the experiences are known and can be categorized. So walking on the line is always a secure place, but sometimes in order to grow we have to get lost in the space, centripetal or centrifugal. At some point the centripetal space needs to be explored in order to finally bring our experiences to clarity (on the time line or time frame). So I wander if, time plus time is then equal to experiences. But experiences are dictated by time as well; shall I then assume that time is the leader of everything? We are actually slaves of the time; but I want to decompose all I asserted and say that time does not exist (when we are in that void mentioned), what then remains left? The perimetral part of the time is gone. The void remains and that part of emptiness that was outlined by the perimeter of time, is now extended to infinity. I realized that the line (time frame and time line are essential whilst living in our physical body, in order not to lose our balance. Often I feel like walking only around the perimeter of time, seeing the void in the middle but hardly enter it. I guess I am in that void whenever I am acquitted deeply in any activity, when I become the activity itself. By writing this, I wanted to forge the term time. Usually referred as a line: 'the time line" (Image below).
In this case what I did to obtain the time frame is simply bending the timeline allowing the vertexes to correspond to each other, finding two ways of categorising our experiences; dividing them in mapped and unmapped experience.
So I believe that time frame contains its space in the middle and its external part. And that time line is in the middle of the space. I just needed a way to point of two differences in the experience, an aware experience such as a "lucid dream" and an unaware experience. That' s why I had the need of explaining what time frame is for me (image below).
According to Hermann Minkowsky (1908) Space and time are a quadridimensionally called Space-time and only together they can exist. Fritjof Capra (1975) argues: concerning the theory of relativity, "space is not tridimensional and time is not a separate entity". When we get rid of that line (time frame and time line) all we have left is space. In the space there is no direction, nowhere to grab, to start, to end. "According to Perennial Philosophy, eternity is not a long time; eternity is beyond time" (Lanier Graham, 2002). I think all the answers to our questions are there, beyond time.
Riccardo Matlakas (b.1982, Naples, Italy) is a London based multidisciplinary artist working internationally. He is best known for his multi-talented capacity in different art forms including performance, dance, painting and sculpture.
He obtained a degree in Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Naples and an MA in Social Sculpture at Oxford Brookes University.
Riccardo values the context he works in as the main inspiration for his work, finding a common ground with each culture he connects with. He creates cathartic actions and performances in the fore-front of current political, environmental and spiritual concerns by digging for the essence of humanity beyond race and custom. The artist often collects relics from his performances which later become objects of memory and contemplation. Riccardo Matlakas has performed and shown his work extensively in Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Palestine, Jordan, South Africa, Iran, Armenia, Russia, Myanmar, Mauritius and South Korea.
