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eteam on ice

eteam

2019 00:04:56 United StatesEnglishColorStereo16:9HD video
Tags:
Drawing, Landscape, Nature

Description

It’s a delight; not fragile yet.

It’s not hockey bashing and blades.

Not the escapades, or a snake.

It’s an expanded definition of drawing.

What is it to balance on a blade? The improbability of the structure of a skate to hold a body, the delicacy of balance — this is just one of the gestures that are repeated and held within the icy structure of the eteam’s video. The expanse of a frozen lake is seen in the gaze of a drone, while the red hat of the solitary human draws a line through the vast frozen landscape. What begins as a sonic heartbeat beneath the ice, turns into a throbbing anthem of epic proportions. Everywhere the extremes. Everywhere held together by a considered tenderness. Who could have predicted that the solitary figure drawing onto ice would be the perfect fit for Queen’s Under Pressure? In the ice real strange world of eteam’s action drawing, it makes perfect sense. It is the vast and the personal who meet; omniscience of drone paired with closeups of a hand; the stick makes a mark, so does nature herself. As viewers we yield to the pressure, the vertigo of far and close. We yield to beauty.  

— Dani & Sheilah ReStack

eteam uses video, performance, installation and writing to instigate and articulate encounters at the edges of diverging cultural, technical and aesthetic universes. Through their artistic practice eteam finds ways to collaborate with people who operate on the edges of mainstream culture and the marketplace. They are drawn to those willing to experiment, cross genres and cultural boundaries, together we forge proximity and make visible the interconnections we humans share with land, animals, plants, ghosts, deities and objects. Practicing art is their way to enter the “outside,” pay close attention to the details, while trying to understand the whole.

eteam’s narratives have screened internationally in video- and film festivals, they lectured in universities, presented in art galleries and museums and performed in the desert, on fields, in caves in ships, black box theaters and horse-drawn wagons.

They could not have done this without the support of Creative Capital and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Art in General, NYSCA, NYFA, Rhizome, CLUI, Taipei Artist Village, Eyebeam, Smack Mellon, Yaddo and MacDowell, the City College of New York, the Academy of Visual Art HKBU and the Fulbright Scholar Program, among many others. Their novel Grabeland was published by Nightboat Books in February 2020.

They received to Fulbright Scholarships to research the relationship between traditional puppetry and digital smart phones in Taiwan.

Also available from eteam is the book Buzz Cut