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the exhibition space of ABOUT, the visual artist Yiannis Melanitis installed his work Kryographia... more the exhibition space of ABOUT, the visual artist Yiannis Melanitis installed his work Kryographia [Fig. 1]. The main body of the artwork consisted of medical equipment and mechanisms that transformed, through the process of writing, ice into water and vice-versa. Kryographia's final scrap was a lead cast on ice. The performance began by copying the text "The Act of Writing" by writer Evi Voyiatzaki, which is part of the work The Body in the Text / James Joyce's Ulysses and the Modern Greek Novel. Through the act of writing and the use of vacuum, a valve was activated, setting into motion a certain amount of water. At the end of each line, a pair of electrodes detected the movement of the scribe and communicated with an electro-valve, which momentarily would open, releasing the liquid. While moving through a system of glass pipes, the fluid would frieze. In the end, all the somatic energy, the act of writing, was crystallized in a metallic shell, a mould, an empty body, as molten lead was casted on ice with the complicity of two assistants [Fig. 2: Melanitis ©, 2010: The cast of Kryographia, final cast of lead on ice. A sculpture as a metaphor for the entropic loss of the performance]
the exhibition space of ABOUT, the visual artist Yiannis Melanitis installed his work Kryographia... more the exhibition space of ABOUT, the visual artist Yiannis Melanitis installed his work Kryographia [Fig. 1]. The main body of the artwork consisted of medical equipment and mechanisms that transformed, through the process of writing, ice into water and vice-versa. Kryographia's final scrap was a lead cast on ice. The performance began by copying the text "The Act of Writing" by writer Evi Voyiatzaki, which is part of the work The Body in the Text / James Joyce's Ulysses and the Modern Greek Novel. Through the act of writing and the use of vacuum, a valve was activated, setting into motion a certain amount of water. At the end of each line, a pair of electrodes detected the movement of the scribe and communicated with an electro-valve, which momentarily would open, releasing the liquid. While moving through a system of glass pipes, the fluid would frieze. In the end, all the somatic energy, the act of writing, was crystallized in a metallic shell, a mould, an empty body, as molten lead was casted on ice with the complicity of two assistants [Fig. 2: Melanitis ©, 2010: The cast of Kryographia, final cast of lead on ice. A sculpture as a metaphor for the entropic loss of the performance]