FIRST PERSON
video, DV-PAL, 00:05:53, 2010

Six persons are brought into an apartment and involved in the task of staging a video. One person is handed a camera while the rest are assigned certain scores. They follow the performers through the apartment, simultaneously executing their tasks.

1) Performance freestyle with pre-recorded video / Audience hold and move spotlights in room 2) Slowed down hardstyle with porn subliminals in room / Audience stand in circle and read a text by Eminem out loud / Ritual performed while making a golden sculpture in the middle of circle 3) Room is destroyed while recorded / Recording projected on wall / Audience placed in certain positions in room / Live keyboard soundtrack created 4) Light on / Light off / Jim Lambie / Not Jim Lambie 5) Everybody into small room / Both performers explain "First Person" concept directly to one person simultaneously / Constantly change person 6)Newspapers handed out / Audience create paper balls and throw them into basket held by performer carried back and forth through room / Auction pull determined by number of paper balls reaching basket 7) Audience placed in front of wall / Camera connected to monitor pointing at audience / Audience asked to think of one word each, describing the performance / Words written on wall / Meanwhile singing "Symphony of science"

 





 




(All photos: eSel.at)

Audience leave apartment and six new persons are invited in. Process is repeated until all audience present have seen the performance.