Tuesday, June 17, 2008

1997 "Weather report", video-installation, De Appel, Amsterdam



Every 3-5 minutes three tv screens would be switched on by a timer and start playing random weather reports in different languages. This loud babel, an assault on people's senses, would last for about 30 seconds and then the tv-sets would be off again. I recorded these weather reports over a long period of time in various countries, and both their anachronism and geographical irrelevance were conceived as a cheeky response to those galleries and museums that exhibit works that were created and produced for a different context. My take on the globalization of contemporary art.

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