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Peter Freund, a versatile artist, often toggles between writing and art to fuel his creative endeavours. Co-founder of Adversorecto, he explores the concept of "retraction," utilizing appropriation to challenge historical narratives. His work, characterized by algorithmic reduction, navigates the intersection of memory and enigma, forging innovative paths in contemporary art.
Peter Freund Blog
7M ago
Zero (0): A Love Story is a novella written entirely with numbers. The 100-page hand-stenciled book recounts a tale of two characters and the serial rendezvous of their enumerative affair.
The first character embodies a succession of numbers belonging to the phi (aka Fibonacci) sequence, the traditional gold standard of aesthetic proportion. Over the course of the tale, the ordinal trajectory of this figure’s fall in love starts from a 21-digit number and proceeds in reverse, moving progressively backwards across 100 integers until eventually arriving at zero (0).
The second ch ..read more
Peter Freund Blog
8M ago
Retracted Cinema (Redux)
October 22, 2022; 3:20
Cinema Trindade; Porto, Portugal
This one-hour program presents fifteen experimental shorts that focus on recontextualizing found or archival footage via algorithmic intervention. The works presented in the Retracted Cinema program use the appropriated film material itself as the site and means of auto-recontextualisation. Inspired by tendencies within conceptual art and Oulipo, the results are achieved by applying a set of rules or constraints (an algorithm) that governs a repeatable (iterative) array of transformations. In this ..read more
Peter Freund Blog
8M ago
I participated as a guest performer in this Oulipo-inspired performative recitation of 35 Sentences at Tecla Sala Art Center (Llobregat, Barcelona) in early April 2022. Video of performance link.
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The Declamatori collective, with Eugènia Agustí, Montse Carreño, Jo Milne, Laia Moretó, Raquel Muñoz, Cristina Pastó, Mercedes Pimiento, Eloi Puig and Martí Ruiz, is part of the IN>TRA2 research team and has written a score specific for the performative reading from the proposal of Antònia Vilà, curator of the exhibition, accompanied by artist's books on conceptual poetics, prod ..read more
Peter Freund Blog
8M ago
[L’Auca d’en Félix] librito
[L’Auca d’en Félix] presents an experimental librito (booklet) by Adversorecto Collective whose text reads in four different directions.
Text 1 [w]:
quiero tirarme al vacio y
sobrevivir dejar tiradas las zapatillas
deportivas en la puerta del balcon
¡a que se aireen!
soltar la bolsa amarilla y
dar el salto para luego
contemplar la trayectoria de vuelo
echado de espaldas sobre la
grava del patio vecino
Text 2 [p]:
>>
a person
{ }
falling
∞ + x
from a skyscraper
*
strangers
+++
falling
) (
in love ..read more
Peter Freund Blog
8M ago
The article on the «Retracted Cinema» program I curated came out this week in Found Footage Magazine. The magazine is available through select bookstores and libraries. Locally in Barcelona, the magazine is carried by the CCCB (Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture) Laie bookstore. Cesar Ustarroz (FFM editor) and his team put out a beautiful product, in the choice of design, content, and paper materials.
Contributing filmmakers: 17-17, Gonzalo Egurza, Argentina, 2017, 5:10, Home Movie Holes, Albert Alcoz, Spain, 2009, 3:00; Psycho 60/98, Blanca Rego, Spain, 2 ..read more
Peter Freund Blog
8M ago
Lead (Pb) envelope (41cm x 27cm) to be used for «Address Unknown»
«Address Unknown» (2024)
Herein lies an endeavor to transform into a sublime object a vexing compensatory gift sent from a close family relative – a personal portrait made from compiled childhood photographs. The concept of this work-in-progress, titled «Address Unknown», is realized according to the following process.
A photo-collage poster print (51cm x 41cm), the original portrait gift, is carefully cut up along the edges of its assembled individual photographs. The now-separated images are each numbered on the back ..read more
Peter Freund Blog
8M ago
Sample page from «Teenytension: A Fairy Tale» (2024)
The Adversorecto collective has produced another librito (booklet), «Teenytension», a pamphlet that experiments with image-text relations via an original fairy tale, images, and page layout. Available in pdf and print versions, the librito extends the concept of artistic retraction into a pre-retractive state: tension, suspension, stretching, longing. Why is Elastic Man so darned alluring?
From the librito series, two other examples by Adversorecto:
• L’Auca d’en Felix
• Crescendo Cantabile: Retracted Descriptions + Score (Pa ..read more
Peter Freund Blog
8M ago
The adversorecto collective (est. Barcelona 2020) takes the next two steps in preparing our first exhibit proposal, «Adversorecto: Round One». A few photos of the preliminary and final models for the exhibition design. The show will include ten pieces – including a live performance piece, paintings, installations, video, and an artist book – which were produced by tampering conceptually and formally with duality, reversal, the binary, parallax, inversion, and other reductions of «two» to the flip sides of a «one».
(Models by Werner Thöni.)
Modeling: Phase 1
Werne ..read more
Peter Freund Blog
8M ago
The newly renovated Batalha Centro de Cinema in the city centre of Porto, Portugal.
I was invited as a guest filmmaker to participate in the 12th Annual International Film Festival of Archive, Memory, Ethnography (17-21 October, Porto, Portugal). The festival presented a program of four of my experimental film shorts in addition to a master class on the work. The screenings and master class took place in the newly renovated Batalha Centro de Cinema in the city centre. [Festival website and program pdf.] I also took part in a panel of authors who contributed to a new book, entitled Aest ..read more
Peter Freund Blog
8M ago
Later this month, I will publish a chapter in this new volume, Aesthetic Authenticity in Cinema, edited by Filipe Martins.
Contributors include: DAVID LAROCCA
FILIPE MARTINS
SUSANA NASCIMENTO DUARTE
PETER FREUND
PAULA RABINOWITZ
SÉRGIO DIAS BRANCO
MARIA AUGUSTA BABO
FERNANDO JOSÉ PEREIRA
HUMBERTO MARTINS
CHRISTA BLUMLINGER
The book release with coincide with the Archive, Memory, Ethnography International Film Festival in Porto, Portugal, October 17-21. This year’s festival will screen a program of some of my moving image work, Guest Artist: Peter Freund, Friday, 20 October from ..read more