Why do humans do themselves harm? Why do they destroy the nature they are part of?
These are the questions that the artist, as part of humankind, asks herself, through a variety of expressive spaces and languages including performances, fragments of historical films and animated drawings on paper. The whispers of “nevermore” pronounced by the artist and transformed into voices both feminine and masculine make us think of a promise sealed with a kiss – a promise that takes wing and is carried off by the wind. The uncertainty that marks mankind’s destiny finds an echo in the call of the crows: their “cras, cras!” means “tomorrow, tomorrow!” in Latin. These cries may signify hope, but also indecision and the eternal postponement of choice.

technique: Experimental video and animation
length: 10'27"
year: 2012
historical film fragments: excerpts from “The Air Force Story” (1953, public domain)
field recording of frogs & toads: Benboncan
field recording of crows: Jim Blodget
all other recordings, camera work, cast, image & sound processing, animation & montage: Maria Korporal
See the video on https://vimeo.com/54654894

Nevermore

{ naked }
a video by Maria Korporal
a poem by Daìta Martinez

The video is the fruit of an encounter between a poet and a visual artist. Along the pathway of life, they share their stories, and open up different spaces and times.
The images and sounds are born of a stone – an altar stone that the artist erected for her video ‘Sacrificio’, and thereafter took down. Spread over the ground now, the stones are still there, waiting to be reborn in works of art. The stone chosen for { naked } was rediscovered in the dry grass: it takes on new life in the hand of the artist.
The poem was written specially for the video and is published here for the first time. { naked } — because, as the poet says, stone is naked. We have only to open it for it to come out, alive.

See the video on https://vimeo.com/35604153
Original version in Italian: { nuda } , vimeo.com/26395586
French version: { nue } , vimeo.com/44595671

{ naked }

... in-volo-quadrato ... is a video by Maria Korporal dedicated to the Italian artist Gino De Dominicis.

“Attempt to form squares instead of circles around a stone falling into water” and “Attempt to fly”, two works by Gino De Dominicis from 1969, inspired Maria Korporal in her performance in this video. Defying the laws of gravity, the artist tries to immerse herself in the immortality so much longed for by De Dominicis.

See the video on https://vimeo.com/45331949

... in-volo-quadrato ...

All started from here: 'HearteartH' ... of course the connection is clear between the two words as interlocking, it is like an anagram projecting a spell from where we cannot escape - heart and earth affect each other - HeartEarth is a work in progress as the theme is infinite, and as the sign '∞' suggests: the 'loop' is going, H is at beginning and end, and it sounds as a breath ... reaching for corrections and adjustments, like scissors cut and paste simultaneously, in an almost paradoxical action - ... meanwhile water is there ... life is there, infinitely ...

The flying sisters are §vonica (Sonia Laura Armaniaco) and maria felix (Maria Korporal).
HEART*EARTH is their first collaboration.

To see the loop version go to http://www.mariakorporal.com/heartearth/
To see the video on Vimeo go to https://vimeo.com/74964394

HearteartH

https://vimeo.com/14522240

Two-channel video installation
© Maria Korporal 2010

Two video loops of each 5:36 for projection on two adjacent walls.
On the left spheres of stone come out of the water and rise slowly until they vanish in the sky: birth of bodies. On the right spheres of water with fishes come down from the sky and fall slowly into the water: return to the origin.

The installation has been presented in November 2010 during the Reggio Film Festival in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in September 2011 during the festival A(r)t-trazioni in San Severo, Italy, and in September 2013 at the exhibition UTOPIA in San Severo.

The artist about her work:
I am conscious of the way humanity is destroying nature and accelerates climate chance in an unnatural way, which has dramatic consequences for the lives of creatures in our times and in the times which will come after us. However, I do not believe in catastrophes. It is my personal conviction that time is circular and that everything is destined to change and to be reborn: the eternal rebirth. This is a conviction which goes beyond the individual and appeals to a collective consciousness. I believe that life shall not be destroyed.
What we see in "The Spring of Eternal Rebirth" seems to repeat itself into infinity, but it is always different; like life, which dies and is always reborn.

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