Video Star in the main sequence
by Adriano Batista



‘Star in the main sequence’ is an artistic statement of Jacek Kołodziejski, a photographer, inspired by an aesthetics of a video clip. The premiere of this project took place at Tauron Nowa Muzyka 2011 Festival, while in a symbolic part it goes way beyond simple association with a music experience. The statement as a whole oscillates between a display of some tension that can be found in a creator-idol and a critical analysis on the subject of a pop-cultural stars that instantly raise and burn out easily.
The project consists of 3 pictures and a video art, the presentation has taken a form of an installation. Photographs were printed out in a form of a poster and glued in a random order on the construction fences. This refers to places and ways in which on daily basis we encounter these half-gods, while on the other hand it symbolizes some level of demotion – the posters are glued in a messy manner, treating an artist as a product. The fences have been put in order to create a special space where Kołodziejski went on a deeper level. That anxious video that explains the viewer what he just has seen on the fences is accompanied by the posters spread on a pallet – another reference to an artist being simply a product. The audience was encouraged to take away a poster on the way back from the installation. In a blink of an eye 2500 posters disappeared. The idol has been metaphorically plucked and vanished.
What’s really interesting is that Kołodziejski has changed the course of things: forms and aesthetics created for a glorification of an idol show off its dissolution. From the posters to the video we can see the climactic, the explosion until there’s only blur and silence left. The astronomical term used in the project’s title is fully justified here. After consideration the most important topic of ‘Stars in the main sequence’ is the collapse. The idol is laden with fate, explodes in order to disappear. One can argue about when the idol is the most appealing to the public. Kołodziejski clearly suggests that the fallen idol is the most exciting one.
“Stars spend a major part of their life in the main sequence. The bigger the star the shorter the period it spends in the main sequence. That’s become the major stars burn out quicker than the smaller ones”. This is a tragic analogy to superheroes of the stage: idols. The metaphoric sight of a cult for the individual, who we know nothing about but we all know her, worship her and love her. Isn’t this praise only concentrated on the stage costume, falsely created package which is only for attracting our attention? How many people’s hard work and effort does it take to create a superhero, half god? It seems we all need them, so with excitement and peace in our hearts we watch the old ones burn and new ones emerge.
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