SACRED DANGER

THE KIM FIELDING AWARD FOR EXPERIMENTAL ARTS



SACRED DANGER PART II

VIDEO INSTALLATION TRANSFERRING A PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE OF SACRED DANGER PART I

INSTALLATION VIEWS

EXCERPTS FROM VIDEOS

SOUNDSCAPE AND INTERACTION RECORDINGS
https://soundcloud.com/ulianaapatina/uliana-apatina-sacreddanger-sound

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Location: St David's House, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Opening: 27 November 2015.

Materials: amplifiers, speakers, projectors, 3 suspended screens, multiple mesh screens, 11 HD video looped, two monitors with HD video looped, one with sound, separate amplifiers with speakers for interactive sound.

Dimensions: H 3 x W 15 x D 10 m.

Supported by: The Kim Fielding Award, Coed Hills Rural Art Space, Cardiff City Council.

Statement: Immersive, site-specific multi-channel sound-video installation transferring the experience of a physical space, that one of Sacred Danger installed in Coed Hills.

Description: Multiplicity of screens is mimicking a disorienting nature of Sacred Danger at Coed Hills. Each projector and monitor contains its own sound, while sound of the interaction with Sacred Danger is travelling into the darkness of the vast space from specifically designated speakers in a middle corner. Three suspended screens are flying over a meshed corridor which allows both projections and visitors to travel all the way through. Two monitors on a floor are staring at a fast rotating projection over a ceiling repeatedly insisting that they are scared. Soundscapes composed of an airplane, cows, horses, human voices, wind, rain, steps are merging with violent noises generated by material components of Sacred Danger. Projections are spinning and rotating submerging you into the innermost darkness of your imagination.

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SD PART II

SACRED DANGER PART I

SITE-SPECIFIC IMMERSIVE PROCESS-BASED OUTSIDE INSTALLATION REINVENTING A SACRED SPACE 

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A PLACE FOR A SOLITUDE TO RECONSTRUCT YOUR OWN SELF

ARTIST => ULIANA APATINA
ENGINEER => IVAN IVASJUK
CONSTRUCTION => ULIANA APATINA
                                  SIMON HUMPHRIES

SUPPORTED BY => THE KIM FIELDING AWARD FOR EXPERIMENTAL ARTS => CARDIFF WALES, COED HILLS RURAL ART SPACE, CARDIFF CITY COUNCIL

MATERIALS => PLEXIGLASS, ZINC PLATED STEEL, CELLULAR RUBBER.
DIMENSIONS => H 2.3 X W 2.7 [1.5 INSIDE CORRIDOR] X D 9.5 M.

COMPLETED => SEPTEMBER 2015
OPENING => 19 SEPTEMBER 2015

LOCATION => COED HILLS RURAL ART SPACE LLANTRITHYD ROAD COWBRIDGE SOUTH GLAMORGAN WALES CF71 7DP
[BUS X2 FROM CARDIFF TO ST HILARY THEN APPROX 15 MIN WALK TO COED HILLS]

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DAYTIME TRANSPARENCY

 RAIN

FROSTED => IN THE EARLY MORNING FOG

FLAMING RED => AT THE SUNSET

VISIBILITY FROM FAR AWAY FIELDS

APPROACHING FROM BEHIND THE BUSH

The whole idea that you don't see it from behind the bush, assuming that a landscape is naked. Only while approaching would you be able to distinguish a glimpse of a transparent ghost behind the entrance gate naturally shaped by the bush and just a little bit expanded by the artist.

COLD BLUE EVENING

ENTRANCE GATES

SITUATION OF NO EXIT

BEHIND THE GRASS

EVAPORATION

GREY DAY

INSIDE => REFLECTIVE DISTORTIONS

BEFORE THE NIGHT

NIGHT

DETAILS

EXPERIENCES

Sacred Danger – immersive site-specific outside installation or a structural intervention in a landscape reinventing a sacred space. A project is inspired by my research trip to Blaenau Ffesteniog in North Wales, where I have been taken by local people to abandoned slate queries. By experiencing a sensation of the innermost fear and danger during this journey – those slate queries could collapse any time – I have compared them to Gothic cathedrals, that one of a beauty and attractive seduction though simultaneously the one of a danger and manipulation.

Visible from far away fields, Sacred Danger sits on a sharply inclined hill like a weightless cloud inviting you to enter into its inside. Although, the very moment you find yourself there, a situation is reversed into insecurity and vulnerability by exposing your body to the attack of a fluctuating under the strong wind structure built out of just 6mm plexiglass penetrated by massive 1inch steel rods. Dragon shape of a zig-zag foundation is confusing in its refractive magnifying reflections, and willing to escape to a stunning sea side horizon you are bounded to a disappointment – you are inside the space with no exit. The exit is blocked by a transparent plexiglass which obviously you do not see unless by touching it on approaching. In effect, you would try to exit Sacred Danger on every turn of a dragon only to realise that transparency is an illusion and all your senses and perceptions are disoriented.

Chameleonic nature of Sacred Danger, with a great sensitivity reacting on each of the atmospheric conditions, makes the structure change its appearance within nearly every hour. Transparent throughout the day. Frosted in the early morning by dense fog. Turning flaming red in the sunset. With sliding raindrops in the evening. The structure claims its own presence to be unbelievable. A space with no exit dissolves in nature by confronting it. Triggers the mind by challenging and provoking it. Delusional crystal clear transparency of plexiglass transforms Sacred Danger into a totally invisible volume suspending threaded bars in the air.

Being deliberately created to transfer the feeling of insecurity, instability and danger - you just simply don't believe that the structure holds itself up - and this is exactly how it should be. Though, each experience would be totally different, somehow you are supposed to be scared inside - and so you do.

On entering Sacred Danger through a hole in a bush, you are signing an agreement with nature by excepting a possibility of the existence of something that logically could not have ever existed.