20/10/2001
Elena Cologni
Toynbee Studios, London
Private public perceptions is a video live installation in which the artist investigates how the relationship body-environment influences the perception of herself.
Private Public Perceptions
‘from Descardes to Berkeley to Diderot, vision is conceived in terms of analogies to the
sense of touch [...] Diderot, in his work Letters on the Blind (1749), asserts the
possibility of a tactile geometry and that touch as well as sight carries with it capacity for
apprehending universally valid truths [...]’
Crary, J., ‘Techniques of the observer. On vision and modernity in the ninteenth century’,
Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1990, p 59
PRIVATE PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS is a video live installation in which I investigate how the
relationship body-environment influences my perception of myself. I
believe that the awareness of the bodily experience of the environment enables me to develop a
better understanding of myselves. The apprehension is subject to the
changing conditions of the context; from the juxtaposition of present and past action the
space/time here created in between seems to arise as a possible answer.
as part of EATOMSK (evening of performance and video)
at Toynbee Hall on Sunday October 21st 6pm
Elena Cologni
Research Centre
The London Institute Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
Southampton Row London WC1B 4AP
contact: e.cologni1@csm.linst.ac.uk
0044 (0)7818 432293
Toynbee Studios,
28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LS