Iowa at 30 Frames per Second

Highlighting the efforts of Iowa's video artists, "Iowa at 30 Frames per Second" features work streamed direct to your computer. The link below the thumbnail will launch a streaming video.

DANIEL LUCHMAN
OHRIA___PECHES, 10 min, 05 sec, video, originally performed with live musical accompaniment, composed by Lieschen Mast, at Recursions, an interdisciplinary collaborative time-based media event, University of Iowa Museum of Art, 2007

Of himself, Daniel Luchman says, "A narrative recipe: I transform personal experiences by layering them with cultural and historic knowledge, distancing them from their source [me] to achieve a more universal dimension- or- highly particular [uncommon] allegorical events monumentalized beneath a mythological disguise.  The work exists within a stylized reality, where rational conventions have been replaced by an absurdist logic, the complex nature of truth and morality are reflected upon with a dark, yet playful, sense of humor and fragile optimism."

"This video alludes to an idea of parallel realities: two characters independently contest for a transcendental experience that fails to occur. Also—minor acrobatic feats are performed, periodically, throughout the video."

Daily Palette Vintage This page was first published on February 28, 2008.