Stumbled upon this, this very morning.
http://chooclytan.com/a-point.php
The artist places and displaces various objects in the room: she does
random figures in the air with a frame and indicates verticality by
jumping with an umbrella. she also sticks images on the wall, including a
hand, with a pointing finger in an up/down direction which is
eventually decided upon by the artist. Simultaneously, a flat screen
plays back what is being recorded by an upside down video camera,
allowing the audience to witness both the way up, and the way down, of
the performance and emphasising the feeling of weight(lessness) and
Gravity. While she hangs from a horizontal pole, the artist catches a
leek. She also finds a book, 'The Master and Margarita', hidden behind a
small secret door. Consecutively the artist asks two people in the
audience to pick a quote from the book. Using the leek she then writes
it in paint, upside-down on the wall, in an attempt to make it correctly
appear upright in the inverted image shown on the monitor. Sometimes
she is forced to walk back and contemplates the flat screen, to better
realise the failure of such attempts.
Does anyone happen to know any other works by the artist? I'm quite taken with this film.
Nathan
Not heard of her before now, but if you're looking for other things by her you're probably looking on the right website...
ReplyDeleteShall hopefully give it a more dedicated viewing soon but the description is curious - I did wonder from the picture though whether the items and the artist were mounted somehow from the ceiling...