n.b.k. Video-Forum | Window Projections
The Goethe-Institut Montreal, in cooperation with the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), presents a screening programme of 20 video works from n.b.k Video-Forum’s extensive video art collection, curated by Anna Lena Seiser (Head of Collection n.b.k. Video-Forum).
The individual films will be shown for a week at a time sunset to 2:00 a.m. on the display windows of the Goethe-Institut at 1626 Boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, H2X 2T1, Canada and can be viewed on an indoor screen during the Goethe-Institut's opening hours:
In the event of amnesia the city will recall...
Denis Beaubois
1997
09:59 Min.
Collection Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
The video work
In the event of amnesia the city will recall… was born out of a three day operation in the public space of Sydney, in which the Denis Beaubois positioned himself at twelve different locations across from security cameras, which he took to be his intended audience. The artist began to interact with the security cameras and used inscribed cardboard signs to enter into a dialogue with them. Through skillful editing, e.g. the use of shot-reverse shot, Beaubois succeeds in giving the impression that the cameras react to his attempts at communication. For example, when the camera moves from left to right, it is read as the denial of a question by shaking one’s head. Beaubois satirizes the alleged pursuit of safety of the Society of Control in that he points its technology back at itself in a humorous way.
The work of
Denis Beaubois (*1970 in Moka / Mauritius, lives in Sydney) includes photography, video, and performance, which the artist sometimes realizes as part of collectives including the Post Arrivalists and Gravity Feed, a performance theater at the intersection between fine art, architecture, and theater.
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