VIDEO EXTRACT


Description and concept

There are four helmets. Each helmet must be connected to a DVD player. All 4 helmets hang are suspended to the ceiling by wires.
Any resemblance to persons, living or dead – is an installation that was created in 2004 for the BPS 22 (Centre of Contemporary Creation) in Charleroi (B).
It is a series of 4 audio – video helmets, which were manufactured in collaboration with two young designers.
In the helmet, the viewer sees a very pale green circle on a black background. This circle modifies itself through the variations of the voice playing in the earphones. The voice is that of a man.
The voice work was developed with medical practitioners that use hypnosis in their work.
The actor speaks in such a way that the viewer becomes completely detached from the place on which he stands.
The circle, with its variations, also contributes to the hypnotic effect.
The text is a compilation, a collection of existing facts (see attached text). The concept is that the viewer should become the object of the installation, and that he should become – once the helmet is placed on his head –a living sculpture hypnotized by image and text.

To date, this work exists in French and English.

2008
# in 'Present Perfect'
Program Initiative for Art + Architecture
Berlin, DE
curators Fotini Lazaridou & Carson Chen

2006
# in 'Science Fiction'
Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris, FR

2005
# in 'Location'
Tyler Art Gallery, Oswego University, New York, USA
curator Julieve Jubin

# in 'Brussels South Airport'
Krinzinger Projekte, Vienne, A
curator Pierre Olivier Rollin

2004
# in ' Any Resemblance'
BPS 22 Center for Contemporary Creation
Charleroi, BE
curator Pierre Olivier Rollin