Artificials Development Units/Grenze is a project born from the work on some concepts taken from Karl Marx's Das Kapital. The text, called "unnits of artificial development", are broken up and separated, to be then put in relation withs forms representing their visual transposition. The animation deriving from this, represents, on the executive plane, an attempts at visualizing the transformation of capital and opens a range of questions as how today's capital catches ours lives, our subjectivities.

In Das Kapital, Karl Marx often uses these words : forms, movement, mecanism, divisions, new circumstances, organic limits, transformation, revolution. When he talks about the worker, he describes him as an imperfect agent in the production of a continuous movement. In GRENZE, Capital is showed as a cube in a perpetual reconstruction.The commodities are showed as a larva and the workers are showed as triangles. All the forms and their components change permanently.

Voices reply to these visual elements. There has been already a work with different voices, including those of the trainees of a non-profit organization which works on social integration, in the Paris area and a community of artists. This specific work of sound has the same importance than the figures. All the forms are resonant bodies with specific sounds. Wind sets in the centre of the images as a spreader, revealing the resonant images. Resonances, interferences, and vibrations are particularly worked. A dialogue takes place between all the sounds.

For ten years Patrick Fontana choosed to work from excerpts, to remove pieces from debates or conferences or seminars of philosophy. He tries to work to these concepts and speeches with his own tools, as a plastician, while seeking to give them a visual translation. He takes notes, not written but drawn. All these experiments are leading him to work on GRENZE's project.



contact: fofana@free.fr
web: www.grenze.fr.vu