Gravitas: An Audiovisual Cadavre Exquis for Times of Lexicon Reduction
摘要
Gravitas is an audiovisual piece that brings together three creative outputs generated independently: a concert, an audio reconstruction/edit, and a video. All three converge in the final piece while the overall motto (acoustic ascension / figurative revelation) remains consistent. The piece signals a migration of the avant-garde onto a broader sphere of resonance, by weaving pure acoustics with field recordings, visual abstraction with tangible figuration, semiotic deconstruction with narrative allure. However, while the avant-garde can no longer afford its own traditional entrenchment, visibility as a duty in contemporary culture may demand dilution to the point of irrelevance. Gravitas attempts to untangle this conundrum.