Beyond Reasoning

4 channel audiovisual installation

Beyond Reasoning, Medea Electronique’s recent work is a four channel audio visual installation piece inspired by Attalis work Noise. Noise is a resonance that interferes with the audition of a message in the process of emission. It is any disruption of any social process, any source of pain. At the extreme it kills. However, as Nechavatal says noise is disturbing and offensive. It is beyond comprehension and challenges our habitual way of thinking and reasoning. Noise necessarily produces resistance in the mind, creating a “critical distance” via a “body/mind rupture.”

In Medea Electronique’s Beyond Reasoning, noise ranges from the extreme silence to the extreme noise. It represents the inability to express any emotion of resistance. The four characters, powerless stand in front of the camera and their reactions to the soundtrack represent their failure to react against the establishment. In large the project is inspired by the recent economic crisis and the subsequent crisis in moral and values…

By increasing art noise to that threshold, the superabundance of “ideological demonstration becomes non-representational.” Therefore, such a noise art environment becomes a private vacuole (noncommunicational cocoon) of self-reflection, where a newfound depth of self-understanding is achieved, as well as a disillusionment of social spectacles and ideologies.

Medea Electronique

Music: Manolis Manousakis

Visuals: Panayiotis Goubouros

Actors: Lida Matsagou

Nadia Deligianni

Haris Mavroudis

Stavros Loukeris

Voice Imrpovisations: Savvina Yannatou

Director of Photography: Dimitris Kostopoulos

Camera: Kostas Yiagkouridis

Tech Advisor: Thodoris Zioutos