Psychogeography

The work "Place as Unstable Nominative" is inspired by psychogeography using "walking" and an "emotional" approach to the place. Initially, the project was planned to be carried out at night in order to study how the face of the metropolis changes at that time in terms of physical and emotional aspects - it is commonly believed that "the true face of the city can only be known at night". As a result of random events (providing first aid to a person after an assault with a robbery background), the project changed its direction. In an instant, the metropolis changed its emotional face from "friendly" to "dangerous". The starting point filmed from "walking" with special consideration of forms, shapes, sounds and close-ups on characteristic architectural elements turned into a chaotic record of spots and sounds recorded while moving by car. The first image stabilization is a frame captured in front of the only bright spot against the dark sky (a building towering over the man) Standing on the threshold of a micro city (hospital). Terrifying cold light reminiscent of the morgue in Stanley Kubrick's film "Eyes Wide Shut" and bringing to mind the main character traversing the city at night. A city (metropolis) in a city (hospital) A conglomerate that appears as a labyrinth that needs a map more than the metropolis itself creates a temptation to continue recording "by walking". The corridors we traverse are no different from each other. We go straight, turn left, right and straight again, repeating the same cycle over and over. In the background, we can hear footsteps, breathing interrupted only by the siren of an ambulance. Countless doors like the number of people who died and were born behind them (Life is a disease transmitted sexually for which no cure has yet been invented) Destination point (reception room) The camera goes off, taking into account every person's right to privacy. I face the choice of whether to continue the original plan or focus on the surrounding space while waiting for the injured person to be discharged.                                                                                   I turn on the camera (people matter because only they give meaning to the place)            A period of 7 hours of "walking" through empty corridors begins. I record every change in space, light intensity, sounds that sometimes resemble noise, sometimes the work of quiet pumps, every information board and change in the structure of the wall that will define the place and allow me to return to the reception room. The space is unsettling, you can feel here like a character cut out of real life and pasted into one of Edward Hopper's paintings. A poignant emptiness. Disorientation. I quickly play the recording to sketch a map back. Correct incorrectness (farce) The stopped clock still shows the same time, which is finally verified by the time of the recording. The corridors I pass sometimes indicate that I am moving in the right direction, sometimes that I am going in the opposite direction. One of the most famous quotes from David Lynch's film production "Owls are not what they seem" runs through my mind. There is no direction which seems to lead to where I want to go. A sketched map indicates that I have to go in the opposite direction than the one suggested. I record... 

Summary:

 In the course of the undertaken activities, one work was created combining the film, the map and the conceptual object into a whole. The object refers to the place and to Roman mythology. The concept used a reference to three fates, the so-called Parcae, considered to be the personification of fate. The object refers to them through the number 3, which refers to the three spinners of fate. The first is associated with birth, the second with marriage and the third with death. The form of the object refers to a game dice, which suggests that the one who throws blindly decides the final effect. The first dice is time - the hour at which the clock stopped was placed on the object, it can be interpreted as before noon or just before midnight. However, no interpretation of it is consistent with the existing reality. The second dice is a place presenting hospital corridors - the random result here is only an act of making a decision that never gives an unambiguous solution. The third dice is information boards with the direction of escape in the event of an evacuation - there are two directions placed on the dice, however, drawing any of them is never a certainty of choosing the right direction, which is why a quote from the Italian philosopher Ludovico Ariosto was placed under each of them "For rarely does man escape from his destiny" indicating that man's fate is subject to destiny. The law of throwing refers to the free will that a person has in making decisions, but it is free because a person does not know his destiny, which was written before his birth. The person also has no influence on changing it. Three dice are connected by a thread that is a symbol of human life - although they do not limit the throw, they always are limiters, forcing the thrower to use all three of them at the same time to clearly define one's situation. 

 PLACE AS UNSTABLE NOMINTIVE