Video poems (selection)
Tamara Laï creates videos and media works using a poetic and often metaphorical syntax. These works appear as dreamlike images where fiction and reality meet. Sound, rhythm and movement still play a key role. Her poetry, close to automatic writing, often operates a dangerous shift between the Self and the Other, in a deep introspection.
Selection for City Sonic#16:
A-Way, 2015
Direction, image, editing, poem: Tamara Laï – music: Andrés G. Jankowski / 1605munro (De).
I&Them, 2015
Direction, image, editing: Tamara Lai | Music: Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta (Pt) – Fast Forward (US) – Bruce Gremo (US) – Tom Hamilton (US) – Peter Zummo (US) – Poems: Joe Brenner (US), Tamara Laï.
Wandering, 2012-2015
Direction, image, editing, soundtrack & poem: Tamara Laï.
Wet Wet Wet, 2015
Direction, image, editing, soundtrack & poem: Tamara Laï.
Woody Blows, 2019
Direction, image, editing, soundtrack & poem: Tamara Laï
Ascent (2013)
In this travelogue (Lago di Como, Castiglione del Lago, Perugia, Bruxelles, Liège, Paris) of Laurent Saiet (Fr), his compositions of electro-cinematic music, pre-exist the visual material. Images flow like a haunting and sensual choreography.
Music: Laurent Saiet.
Production: Thalamus Prod, Laurent Saiet.
Biography
Video director, Tamara Laï turned to digital techniques in 1993: video, computer graphics and special effects, with the writing of interactive novels, stories and poetry. Early web activist and network artist (1997), her research focuses on Net art / Web Art (sites, performances cam_&_cat, video conferences…), and especially the creation of participative digital spaces. Her works “between happening and ephemeral art”, have been part of the official selections of festivals and international events worldwide.