Carlos Casas
(Barcelona, 1974)- Krakatoa, 2020-2023
- Grotta, 2023
- Patagonian Fieldworks, Tree, 2022
- Cemetery Archive works (Magnum Opus), 2020
- Archive Boards series (Black), 2020
- Archive Boards series (Mythologies), 2020
- Archive Boards series (Postnature), 2020
- Archive Boards series (Cinema), 2020
- Film drawings series, 2020
- Film drawings series, 2020
- Film drawings series, 2020
- Film drawing series, 2020
- Film drawings series, 2020
- Film drawings series, 2020
- Mutia Escarpment (composite series), 2020
- Cemetery, 2019
- Sanctuary, 2017
- Avalanche, 2009
- End Trilogy, 2002-2008
- Rocinha, 2003
- Afterwords, 2000
- Fieldworks, 2000
Fieldworks, 2000
Fieldworks made by Carlos Casas from 2000 until today
Video, color, sound, different durations
(ENG) Fieldworks are a series of films, a part of an ongoing experiment with ambiental video and radio frequencies, a sort of landscape video notes I have been developing since 2000. With these works I try to capture the atmospheric qualities of a landscape through visual and audio field recordings captured on location. Using image and sound as a sort of spatial instrument, I am interested in short waves signals and VLF, their atmospheric qualities and sound. In fact, capturing the radio waves in each of the landscape I portray, allows me to grasp another dimension of it. A sort of enhanced perception. I am interested also in the asynchronous randomness of the relation between soundtrack and film. In this work I carry out a sort of post structural film, where documentary and experimental film manners meet.
(CAST) Fieldworks son una serie de películas, que forman parte de un experimento en curso con vídeo ambiental y frecuencias de radio, una especie de notas videográficas del paisaje que he estado desarrollando desde el año 2000. Con estos trabajos trato de capturar las cualidades atmosféricas de un paisaje a través de grabaciones visuales y de audio capturadas en dichos lugares. Utilizando la imagen y el sonido como una especie de instrumento espacial, me interesa captar las señales de ondas cortas y VLF, sus cualidades atmosféricas y el sonido. De hecho, capturar las ondas de radio en cada uno de los paisajes que retrato me permite captar otra dimensión del mismo. Una especie de percepción mejorada. También me interesa la aleatoriedad asincrónica de la relación entre la banda sonora y el cine. En este trabajo realizo una especie de película post estructural, donde se encuentran las formas de cine documental y experimental.
Fieldworks locations:
PHILIPPINES FIELDWORKS
TORINO FIELDWORKS
ISTANBUL FIELDWORKS
CAIRO FIELDWORKS
MONTJUICH FIELDWORKS
SIBERIAN FIELDWORKS
ARAL FIELDWORKS
PATAGONIAN FIELDWORKS
BADAKSHAN FIELDWORKS
CALIFORNIA FIELDWORKS
KYRGIZ FIELDWORKS
BRAZIL FIELDWORKS
ROCINHA FIELDWORKS
Aral Fieldworks, 2004
Brazil Fieldworks, 2006
Patagonian Fieldworks, 2001-2002
Siberian Fieldworks, 2006-2007