An interest in consciousness and altered states of mind led me to experiment with the pyschedelic experience by ingesting psilocybin mushrooms, transending our everyday reality to experience the presence of a higher consciousness. My aspiration is to create a prelinguistic visionary utopia resistant to modern rationalistic and utilitarian consciousness, inspired by the theory of the ‘Untutored Eye’ by Stan Brakage, which is about imagining an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective.
My aim for this film has been to delve into these imagined dimensions, to consider them as real, residing in spaces that exist beyond our physical senses. I look to represent the contrast between reality and the human experience of perceiving reality by creating a micro world of images as seen through the microscope lens and a macro world made of natural landscapes.
Making art is an introspective dialogue with my inner self and a spiritual return to the innocence of the primitive self. It provides the absolute freedom to follow spontaneity and instinct to create something highly subjective in response to ordinary and extraordinary everyday encounters.
I choose moving image because I am fascinated with its time-based and cross-disciplinary nature, which allows me to combine and explore my overlapping interests in cinema, painting, poetry and sound. My practice is mainly inspired by the works of experimental filmmakers such as Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage and Patrick Bokanowski. It is motivated by an investigation of consciousness, nature, the unknown, visual perception and altered states of mind. I question what is reality and how does our imagination contribute to our perception of the real?
July 2021
davidevanacore.com
@davide.vanacore
My aim for this film has been to delve into these imagined dimensions, to consider them as real, residing in spaces that exist beyond our physical senses. I look to represent the contrast between reality and the human experience of perceiving reality by creating a micro world of images as seen through the microscope lens and a macro world made of natural landscapes.
Making art is an introspective dialogue with my inner self and a spiritual return to the innocence of the primitive self. It provides the absolute freedom to follow spontaneity and instinct to create something highly subjective in response to ordinary and extraordinary everyday encounters.
I choose moving image because I am fascinated with its time-based and cross-disciplinary nature, which allows me to combine and explore my overlapping interests in cinema, painting, poetry and sound. My practice is mainly inspired by the works of experimental filmmakers such as Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage and Patrick Bokanowski. It is motivated by an investigation of consciousness, nature, the unknown, visual perception and altered states of mind. I question what is reality and how does our imagination contribute to our perception of the real?
July 2021
davidevanacore.com
@davide.vanacore
Goldsmiths
Postgraduate Exhibitions
MA Artists' Film
& Moving Image
15-20 July 2021
Small Pool
Laurie Grove Baths
6 Laurie Grove
London SE14 6NH
See you there!