videos

nam june paik - exhibition 2009 new York

at first I started looking at just the videos and his particular work didn't really interest me but after coming across his exhibition in new York it caught my attention as to how he presented his work. I really liked the mix between the older styling of the video and the modern theme of the tvs and projections.

peter campus - three transitions

Campus uses basic techniques of video technology and his own image to create metaphors for the psychology of the self. In the first "transition," Campus records with two cameras simultaneously on either side of a sheet of paper to achieve visual illusion: he appears to stab himself in the back, climb through his own body, and emerge whole on the other side. In the second exercise, Campus uses the effect of chroma-key to achieve a strrong effect. He wipes his face with his hand and, in doing so, "erases" its surface — only to reveal another image of his face underneath. Finally, in a conclusion, he appears to burn the living image of his face (as if it were a photograph), leaving only blackness.

i think thi video shows the feeling of not being comfortable on your own skin but also the impression other thing have on you. i think the performer tries to expose the illusions the artist has set up and this could also be the same as the media showing the perception that they think is right but also people underneath trying to break through

Steve McQueen Retrospective at Schaulager Basel