Artifice and Sensation
is a series of 4 projected video sequences periodically interrupted
by black images while the sound continues.
The theme is that of artifice and sensation as the uniquely human
expression of mind, focusing on different perspectives, related to
the forms of the city, the notion of transparency and the Western
ideology.
The video sequences are made from X-rayed luggage, X-rayed vehicles,
vehicle plans, maps from the Las Vegas Strip, views from casino-hotels,
from neon signs, etc. Each image transforms slowly but irrepressibly
into the next one, shifting from architectural to x-ray scans, to
signage or aerial views. The notion of scale is disrupted.
The total duration is 10'30''.
Marie Sester
Concept and Direction
Heimann Systems
X-ray image technology
Serge Equilbey
Luggage recording
– Produced by New Langton Arts, San Francisco; Le Métafort,
Paris; AFAA, The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Fond Etant
Donnés, New York.
– Exhibited at New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 1999.
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Segment
1
42sec
(1.7M)
Segment 2
42sec
(2.1M)
Segment
3
14sec
(756K)
Segment
4
36sec
(1.7M)
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