LoVid. Contact Longing

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An installation of video sculpture and wall works will open at the gallery on June 23, accompanied by an online artwork launching the same day on KLAUSGALLERY.net and a live performance that evening at 7PM. The installation and online component will be on view through August 5 in the front gallery.

Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus have been working under the moniker LoVid for over a decade. Their interdisciplinary practice explores the invisible or intangible aspects of contemporary society, such as communication systems and biological signals. They are particularly interested in the merging of computer and human evolution, and as such their work uses technology and handmade practices.

On June 23rd LoVid will perform live at the gallery in the main space. Hinkis and Lapidus play in tandem a homemade synthesizer while wearing LoVid fabrics in an environment painted with video projections. The sound and visuals are coordinated creating an intense and saturated in sync experience.

The front gallery will display works on paper, fabric pieces, and a 5-channel video piece. Each of the works relate to the others formally and aesthetically, as the paper and fabric pieces are drawn from LoVid video stills. The 5-channel video piece, playing on flat screen monitors, is an abstract colorful montage of seemingly analog glitches, zig zags, shapes, and stripes rolling across the screen and morphing from one scene to the next. The result is a mesmerizing and captivating experience.

Young Antiquities, a new internet artwork will launch on KLAUSGALLERY.net on June 23. This piece takes it cues from digital 3D exploration tools, including one the Smithsonian Museum has created to explore the ancient artifacts in their collection. LoVid used an array of 3D scanners including one from a paleontology lab, treating their sculptures as artifacts. The scans are presented as videos of LoVid’s soft sculptures (some on display in the gallery). The piece visually revolves through every angle of the sculptures, at times becoming bitmapped and low res. It is unclear if the bit mapping is from the digital source material of the sculptures, or from the loss of detail resulting in too much digital information for the computer to display.