Fact 2020: Audiovisual
Fact 2020: Audiovisual
We’ve collected some of our favourite audiovisual works from a year in which creativity was made more difficult, and more vital, than ever.
This year Fact Magazine broadened its focus, presenting short film, audiovisual work, movement and performance art alongside the electronic and experimental music we have always championed.
More importantly, this year proved to be one of the most challenging faced by artists the world over, with the pressures of a global pandemic, major cuts to arts funding and the sustained struggle of millions of protestors, who continue you to show extreme bravery and strength across the globe, making creativity more difficult, and more vital, than ever.
Marta Stražičić heals unaddressed massage needs with Trigger Point INKlings
A skeletal Massage Fairy is summoned to give the ultimate trigger point therapy massage.
This neuromuscular therapy was developed to combat myofascial pain and, according to these texts, can help to reduce tension, heart rate, blood pressure, muscle tension and respiration problems. In the face of the relentless anxiety and stress that is symptomatic of life in the age of COVID-19, Stražičić wants raise awareness of the essential benefits that this therapy can grant. For this she needed to summon a Massage Fairy.
“The first inkling of physical discomfort gave birth to a need. That need was unaddressed,” explains Stražičić. “The need got so powerful it ended up materialising a solution for its problem in form of a Massage Fairy.” Stražičić continues: “Massage Fairies grew in numbers. As more were born into this embedded quest, the more they learned from each other. In time, an art for