eucharist
A complex two-channel immersive cinematic experience that combined natural materials (wine, milk, hay, manure, coffee grounds and olive oil) that decay through time. Eucharist juxtaposed projected video images, sound and organic materials in order to create an environment that invited the participation of all five senses. It constructed an insightful dialogue between the virtual and the physical, suggesting a world that both alters us and is, in turn, changed by our presence. At the core of this work was an exploration of both the idea and act of transformation that weave through our experiences, our lives and everything around us.
There were two projected images, one was a thirteen minute repeating cycle that played on a back wall. The other was projected down on a raised pool that is divided in half with milk on one side and wine on the other. In one half of the pool there was an image of a man in a suit treading to stay afloat, in the other half he is naked and they switch sides throughout the installation. The projected images in the installation presented the narrative component, laying out a story of alpha and omega; change and resurrection; and the conceptual and ideational soul of the work. The physical elements served as the corporeal body of the work as well as a representation and a metaphor of transformation itself. These elements changed during the installation, the wine becoming vinegar, the milk souring, the rich moist earth drying up physically making manifest the world in its constant state of becoming.
Eucharist
©2003
Raphael DiLuzio
Time based two channel installation with milk, wine, hay, coffee and manure The work was originally installed in 2003, Monastero Benedettini, San Martino, Italy and the the "project room," in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Eucharist
images and video
Eucharist
2003