{"uid":"YadQEUVHjSfdc3o0","type":"artist","tags":["video","videoinstallation"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Worship:Lord of Snow","summary":"The video footage was taken during my research journey in Peru in 2019. Andean natives are performing the ceremonial dance and pilgrims are queuing during the annual festival Qoyllur Riti (Snow in the Quechua language), in the Ausangate mountains in southeastern Peru. I de-documentarized the images and overlaid the screen, emphasizing the rhythm and repetitiveness of the movement in the sacrificial ceremony. Scenic and pictorial considerations led to the composition of the image.\nThe Qoyllur Riti Festival is pre-Columbian and existed even before the birth of the Incan Empire. During the Spanish colonial period, in order to preach to the natives, the Spanish priests syncretized a novel Catholic\/Andean folklore. They applied the image of Jesus and created the Lord of Snow (Senior de Qoyllur Riti) which is the main object of worship in the ceremony. The Peruvian colonial-style Catholic altar framing the video presents the metaphor of the Spanish colonial development history behind this festival. It is also a framework for contrasting and highlighting the energy field of the ceremony.\nWhen the color of the characters and music composition in the video is distorted and transposed into unreal sounds and images, when it becomes difficult to identify ethnic or cultural background, the audience is compelled to focus on the dancing rhythm and the interaction of the human bodies in the ritual collision.","space":"The video can be projected on a screen that is about 170 to 200 cm length, or a screen of an even bigger size. \nThe screen should be installed vertically.\nWith stereo equipment. \nThe video could be shown in a dark hall with other artworks.  \nBut it will be best to show it along in one dark room.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zQ2Dzn1dVxI&t=2s","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":1,"names":"Ze","surname":"WEI","email":"zewei.visualhistory@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"352863596","address":"Dudenstrasse 36, 10965","city":"Berlin","nacionality":"Taiwanese","country_id":"61","birthdate":"1985-03-15T23:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1985-03-15T23:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+491783396452","web":"www.ze-wei.com"}