LAPSE
Stavros Gasparatos & Lars Jan
25.07-14.08.2022
Left wing of Stavros Niarchos Hall - SNFCC
LAPSE is a sonic-cinematic installation created by renowned artists Stavros Gasparatos and Lars Jan. The work traces the journey of an anonymous woman over vast stretches of time and distance, conveyed by way of an audio time-lapse technique, in concert with a visual installation balanced between a film and a cloud.
Inside the single vaulted space, visitors are immersed in a vivid surround-soundscape of metropolitan life — recordings made by Gasparatos in more than 30 cities, including New York, Berlin and Dubai, in the months just before the transformed landscape of lockdown. These journeys are conveyed in a compressed timeline and played back with an added layer of composition through a surround sound speaker system.
The stark contrast that these sounds provide with the atrophied city and social life of the past two years is unavoidable – one that is visualized by Jan’s hour-long film of a woman floating down hundreds of kilometers of Greece’s longest river and, literally, out to sea. She is swept up, isolated, yet animated, and ever in the flow of things. Given the geographical location of the waterways in question, any sense of serenity is unstable — in the woman’s clothes, the viewer may register life-jacket orange or an emergency-blanket shimmer. The film is reflected off a massive mirror onto a vertical screen hovering above the audience. Striated haze shapes the volume between these two surfaces as the visual landscape oscillates between the photographic omnisciency of Google Earth and the diffusion of a cloud.
LAPSE
Co-Creator, Music Composition, Sound Installation Design & Originated by: Stavros Gasparatos
Co-Creator, Film Director & Visual Installation Director: Lars Jan
Creative & Executive Producer: Konstantinos Sakkas
Commissioned By: SNF Nostos - Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
Co-Produced By: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
Produced By: Delta Pi
Line Production -Technical Execution: View Master Events
Associate Architect: Vassilis Saltas
Touring Supervisor: Manolis Vitsaxakis
Renders & Plans: Sofia Keramida
Composer’s Assistant: Alexandra Katerinopoulos
Documentation: The ArchLabyrinth
Texts editing: Rallou Avramidou
Touring administrative manager: Remco van der Meer
Production manager assistant: Anna Vakontiou
Line Production Assistant: Katerina Kazou
“LAPSE” FILM CONTRIBUTORS
Directed & Written by Lars Jan
Director of Photography & Drone Operator: Tasos Fytros / FlyingDog Aerial Media
Performed by Dominiki Drakopoulou, Emmanouela Pechynaki, Efi Koutsakou
Costumes Designer & Wardrobe: Konstantina Mardiki
Edited by Studio Lars Jan Inc.
Video Graphics: Michalis Neromyliotis
Sound editing: Studio 1-2-3
Casting by Delta Pi productions
Line Producer: Maria Drandaki / Homemade Films
Line Producer: Giannis Karantanis
Location Scout & Unit Production Manager: Giorgos Karoris
Drone Operator Assistant: Giannis Gemeliaris
Production Coordinator & First AD: Malvina Lorida
Production Assistant: Danai Giannakopoulou
Line Production Assistants: Dimitris Dimitriou, Stefanos Dimopoulos
Medic: Stelios Tsalikis / Pashna
Legal Consultant: Theodoros Chiou
