Dom Cheverti throwes further
A massive new film project shown on Vaterpas F.A.´s façade.

ARTIST
September Interview

by Susan Horsens, Vaterpas Art Paper  © 2007

Dom Cheverti´s new site-specific, multi-channel films “Cold Bowl” premiered this month at the Vaterpas F. A.´s  site. Cheverti´s films follows the lives of chamberlains whose allmost synchronised movements appear in specific closed and open spaces. The project is commissioned by Vaterpas Creative Spare Time in collaboration with the Vaterpas Research Institute.

SH: Do you believe that your project alters the essence of chamberlains in some way?

DC: When I was first working on “Cold Bowl” I said to myself: “Let´s look at chamberlains differently and see them as flying saucers of stories and images, something that can be changing and disappearing like human beeings, like you and me.

SH: What were some of the biggest challenges in creating a project of this kind?

DC: It´s been a fascinating proces and the challenges themselves have been the most addicting. The biggest challenge of  “Cold Bowl” is to communicate the intimate last moments of chamberlains lives. And to build the visual language for “Cold Bowl”, the scenes had to be stripped to their essence, it was like working in a kind of  cinematic minimalism. It is kind of a Smithson, Judd, Hesse moment applied to film.

SH: In the catalogue for the films you interview several people including a clergy, a hunter and a jerry-builder. What thread connects them to chamberlains?

DC: I was interested in exploring the idea of the chamberlain as a body and the body as a chamberlain. I wanted to generate diverse conversations about what it is to fly now, in a world that is both cold and electric, warm and organic.

SH: You are doing the V-sign at the end of each film, does it say victory or mark a score?

DC: No, that´s the new icon for Vaterpas Trust.

SH: What will happen to the work after its installation at the VaPA-site?

DC: The work is not done yet, the Research Institute has ordered five more bowl films, and they are on the ferryboat. But “Cold Bowl” will exist both as a multi-channel edition (at Ferdinand van Böers, Brussels) and as a single channel film (also van Böers). The work has other elements as well, such as a series of chamberlain sculptures, and some awsome barbecue scenes. But I´m still bargaing with the mothership about that.