Dis'location
123 N. Webster St. Dayton, Ohio
6 - 9 July, 2000
Multimedia interactive performance using video, sound, lighting and 3d computer animation. We devised a situation where the viewer isn't allowed physical access to the room containing the video projection. Instead, they are forced to view from a hallway. The doors to the room containing the video projection are wired with micro video cameras that transmit to another room further along the hall. It is at the moment of discovery that the viewer is made complicit in the "event" of art, where they have unknowingly become a participant in the work. This produces a sort of feedback loop, a temporal doubling, where they are aware that their viewing/actions have been caught and transmitted to others but are never able to see themselves. They are only allowed to be aware of their compromised condition without being witness to it.
