NO NAME
Video installation
by Peter Raichev

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In Petar Raichev’s video the dancing couple is communicating to itself under the roof. It bends and twists, it beats leg and powder up before a fancy, numerous audience. And they feel exactly because there is no audience…
Alienation is typical in the relationship with technologies, Boryana P and Ivan Nikolov’s video reveals. The fluorescent electronic sign “No signal” crawls up and down the wavy surface, fooling the eye (and ear) with the overflowing beauty and music of the happening. And when the image gradually focuses we see that the text is projected across a woman’s face. The impossible communication is with… who exactly – whether with equipment, with the person behind the equipment or with one’s own self through equipment…

exerpt from the text by Diana Popova in the catalogue MAP – Case Study 02