As I was moving ahead

Installation — 2015

As I Was Moving Ahead is a video installation created ahead of the performance As we Were Moving Ahead Occasionally We Saw Brief Glimpses Of Beauty. This project is inspired by Pipilotti Rist's video installation Mutaflor in which the artist is filmed naked in a studio, a video montage shows a tracking shot from her anus to her mouth, the installation gives the sensation of be swallowed and constantly pass through the artist's body.

As I was Moving Ahead is a variation from the perspective of the selfie, connecting different space & times. Here the camera is held at arm's length, this constraint gives the measurement of the loops.
The video is projected on the ground, adapts to the exhibition space and its architecture, it plays on the loss of bearings, the sensation of falling, of being swallowed.

Different spaces and temporalities are thus connected: the place of the projection, various locations within the exhibition venue, its exteriors and interiors, different buildings, natural spaces, desert, green, rivers, seas, beaches , private and public spaces, different seasons, etc.
This project can be projected as is, or adapted to the actual location of presentation to make it an in-situ creation. Connecting the very location of the exhibition with past video loops made in other places, contexts and other times. This collage makes it an accumulation of fragments of places and moments experienced by the artist using his body to make the editing.

This project diverts a practice: the selfie as a discipline of self-staging, and a technological tool, the GoPro, making this project possible indoors and outdoors, in extreme conditions (in and out of water). This installation plays on interior/exterior relationships, both from the body and the architecture. It also plays on the continuous movement of the camera, the sensation of being swallowed or absorbed in a loop, by the other, the technology, and here the artist.

CREDITS

Concept: Gaëtan Rusquet Production: Hiros Support: workspacebrussels (Brussels), Kunstencentrum Buda (Kortrijk).

SHOWS

11.12.2015 >12.12.2015 - WorkingTitle Situation, Beurschouwburg, Brussels(BE)