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"Rolling Tape", an art performance film by Ida Ivanka Kubler

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International artist Ida Ivanka Kubler, based in New York, has created a series of performative videoworks.

Ask the question "what is the artists canvas?" Ida answers by saying my body is a canvas. “My work is about transition, texture and questioning. I want the viewer to reassess their idea of womanhood and nakedness. it is a bringing together of ideas about the body, more specifically about my body in the artistic process”. Ida has a history in performative videoworks she says that she likes the medium as the viewer does not have enough time to compose their feelings. They react with the unfolding film. And as these reactions are unobserved the viewer is left to transcend their own feelings.

In the videowork "Rolling Tape" Ida explores how the naked body is perceived and transformed. The nakedness is covered with cassette tape - unwound, plastic and shiny . The juxtaposition in time of nakedness and subsequent covering begs questions of fears, stories and personal “body” anxieties. Here the aim is to cover. And this questions the role of nakedness and what it means for the casual voyeur who is just a click away. The video engages the viewer with the texture of the tape on skin: the industrial unnatural tape plays on the body natural, the tape appears to create hard  shiny surfaces on the softness creating tension and visual texture. This tension, perhaps, reflects a dissonance in the viewer as they grapple with art, desires, voyerism and fleetingness . In "Rolling Tape" Ida's canvas is the environment. It is the failing light of the day and the forest. Over this naturalness she tells a repetitive story in which her part is vital. It is action and inaction in the presents of a copious and unengaged world. What is action? What is it’s impact?

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