Alex Pensato

Deleted Scenes

2002-2019

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At the center of the Deleted Scenes project is a looping video projection taken from the opening scene of the futuristic film Blade Runner. The artist used Hollywood post-production techniques to erase all traces of the actors from the video and soundtrack. The peripheral elements become the primary focus and a hyper awareness of the fabrication processes inherent in the construction of a scene develops. The disappearance of the actors also dislodges the scene from its specific date of production and develops an uncanny feeling of Deja Vu (real experience, memory, and fiction collide). Alternate potential beginnings are added as subtitles over the course of the project starting in 2002 and ending in 2019. The content of these dialogues shift in relation to our relative position in time to the past projection of the future (as found in the original film) and the potential future that is still to be manifest. An important question running throughout the work is how ambient systems in architecture and design construct both meaning in the present and ideas about the (potential) future. The Deleted Scenes Project will continue to be in a state of exhibition and re-negotiation. Continuing until November of 2019, when the events in Blade Runner were to take place, it will work to center a snowballing of both planned and speculative collaborations. The video is one component functioning alongside parallel strategies of temporal displacements and subtle revisions.

Video at http://vimeo.com/18602054