ELEMENATALS multimedia art

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The multimedia art project titled Elementals is a collaboration of three artists- a sculptor Nikola Radonjic, a composer Slobodanka Bobana Dabovic Djuric, and a butoh dance performance artist Bojana Popadic, all from Montenegro, former Yugoslavia. It is based on the research of the studies created by antic Greek philosophers Plato and Empedocles, as well as the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. The exhibition consists of 5 installations of the Platonic solids that are in fact regular, convex polyhedron: tetrahedron (or pyramid), hexahedron (cube), octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron, that all represent the basic elements fire, earth, water, air and Universe. The sculptor creates his own 5 platonic solids of wood, metal and light, which form a construction basis for the simulation of the universe. Each of the solid is accompanied with a musical composition representing each of the elements. The composer creates unique pieces of music for each of the platonic solids in order to describe the energy and power of the Fire, the strength of the Earth, the vibrations and flow of the Water, and the presence of the Air. The disharmony and yet the total balance of the four elements result in the fifth- Universe, that is actually an echo of the entire living existence. She composes using postmodern techniques, without regulation, creating music that is not based on tonic, so that there are no limits in the rhythm and melody, and the instruments are free to experiment with. Thus the music consists of ambience expression combined with various sounds, in order to try to present something much greater and divine. Under the fifth element- dodecahedron related to the Universe- a butoh dance performance is occurring, representing the creation, the way it was described by Plato (Demiurge, the Creator of the Universe has brought order into chaos). The living material is presented through a performance- the naissance of life in a symbolic egg (as the Universe itself is constructed as an egg, according to Plato), the birthing, breathing, awakening, and in the end the sorrow for the mortality. The mankind is aware that they possess the mortal soul as they are constantly challenged by the passions (sad-ness, sorrow, pain, evil, cravings, hope, erotic intentions, desire etc). Only the mind can create an order so that the man can aspire to the Beauty and the Good in order to overcome these passions. However, the mankind cannot liberate themselves from the mortality and are always aware of their unfortunate existence. That is why the performance is portraying the struggle of the humankind of the two souls and domination of the mortal one.

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