25 minutes before anihilation

2016

exhibition: "Augmented City"

Asia contemporary art platform NON Berlin

>>https://vimeo.com/192810506

"Augmented city” is a guided tour through Warsaw based on physical run through virtual reality mediated by projected recording. Key element is the dynamic form of depicting the city from a first person perspective. The artist moves on the track. Track is connected to the computer mouse’s scroll. Depending on the speed of the run, the presentation is projected at a different pace. Artist controls the intensity of sightseeing: he can speed up the tempo, slow down or stop to take a breath. It shows the connection between body and virtual reality. Apart from the bodily effort, Delman is also constantly responding to projected topography of the city, which can demand a stronger and more direct or distant reaction.

The work “25 minutes before the annihilation” is a visual journey through the peak tensions between the various Warsaw milieus. The city is full of struggle and attempts to capture public space by specific groups. There will soon be a collision, the collapse of reality, because the tensions are already ultimate and the groups fighting each other are seeking confrontation.

The tour takes around 30 minutes. During this time Delman is able to show Warsaw only from his personal point of view, he chooses subjectively meaningful elements of the composition. Presented perspective is the one of a person born in Warsaw, who recalls his childhood, block of flats’ adolescence and functioning in post-communist country after ‘89. A couple of kilometers of virtual, emotional composition about Warsaw, propelled by his own body, is not a narrative tour but an attempt to show tensions and problems that are present in the experience of citizens of this city and country.

>>https://vimeo.com/192810506

"Augmented city” is a guided tour through Warsaw based on physical run through virtual reality mediated by projected recording. Key element is the dynamic form of depicting the city from a first person perspective. The artist moves on the track. Track is connected to the computer mouse’s scroll. Depending on the speed of the run, the presentation is projected at a different pace. Artist controls the intensity of sightseeing: he can speed up the tempo, slow down or stop to take a breath. It shows the connection between body and virtual reality. Apart from the bodily effort, Delman is also constantly responding to projected topography of the city, which can demand a stronger and more direct or distant reaction.

The work “25 minutes before the annihilation” is a visual journey through the peak tensions between the various Warsaw milieus. The city is full of struggle and attempts to capture public space by specific groups. There will soon be a collision, the collapse of reality, because the tensions are already ultimate and the groups fighting each other are seeking confrontation.

The tour takes around 30 minutes. During this time Delman is able to show Warsaw only from his personal point of view, he chooses subjectively meaningful elements of the composition. Presented perspective is the one of a person born in Warsaw, who recalls his childhood, block of flats’ adolescence and functioning in post-communist country after ‘89. A couple of kilometers of virtual, emotional composition about Warsaw, propelled by his own body, is not a narrative tour but an attempt to show tensions and problems that are present in the experience of citizens of this city and country.