What is Video-Art HAIKU?
Video Art Haiku is the combination of the “poetic image” with the “aesthetic experience” using the video as canvas of its artwork: the cultural/historical construction of HAIKU as an art form to capture the essence of lyric poetry practiced throughout the ages.Nohra Corredor, 2006 The strength of haiku lies in its suggestions. Haiku is a ‘poem’ mainly concerned with human emotions and affairs and it uses natural phenomena to reflect those ecological connections. Basic essentials to Video-art Haiku are: 1. Some word or expression that indicates the time of year, forming a background for the visual image. 2. To record a high moment-higher at least than plain surroundings. 3. To evoke association of ideas–references to social customs, myths, beliefs, cultural usages and the like–by ‘condensing’ thoughts through omission of words or images unessential to express the intended real emotions or facts as well as by comparing two or more ideas expressed in the visual poem itself. Accordingly,
