Duet

video installation

Hassam Abdo, a young Palestinian boy, was stopped at an Israeli army checkpoint with a bomb attached to his body. In this performative echo a man enacts and repeats the gestures of the boy while a second performer, a woman, embodies all that intervenes from behind the plane of the camera; the soldiers, the viewer, the camera itself.
 50min single-channel video gallery installation, full-wall projection in darkened room. This work has also been seen as a projection in public space and as a live performance.

Ossip

performance

OSSIP is as a dance performance developed during a residency at O Vertigo, Montreal and presented at Tangente-Danse, Montreal with two performers, five altered chairs and a non-musical soundscape. OSSIP is a 'translation' of a single poem by Russian poet Ossip Mandelstam into sound, movement and objects. The stage is occupied by several unusual or altered chairs. One with an extra back, others linked into pairs. We hear fragments of Mandelstam’s poem in Russian, English and French. Performers move from one chair to another. The chairs are put through a series of manipulations. Finally, the two performers move into a distorted social dance at the fringe of visible space, as the poem becomes whole to our ears.

Cinéma

multimedia (video/audio/live) piece for a public space

A storefront facing a public square is converted into a theater. Seats inside the space face out onto the street. The window becomes either a screen or procenium when viewed from the inside. From outside the space appears as a theatre viewed from the stage. Performance takes place in the park and streetscape opposite the window. The performance is composed of both ambient activity, hardly distinguishable from the every-day as well as explicit actions. Presented at Société des arts technologiques, Montreal. Live sound (from mics in the park) mixed with prerecorded material in a live sound mix for each performance. While water pours down the window, separating the audience from the world, Cinéma opens with a monologue about with the nature of the first word and the dominance of the eye in our experience of the world.

Moat

installation

MOAT is a video installation originally recorded in the moat surrounding Canada House on Trafalgar Square, London, merging live performance with video surveillance technology in a work exploring surveillance and political violence. The installation is pre-recorded video work with site-specific input. Installed in the gallery or in non-gallery areas such as office, reception desk or hallways, mimicking a CCTV set-up. Live video from local surveillance cameras is combined with pre-recorded footage and sound in a work which viewers can manipulate by selecting video sources seen on a security monitor.

Trio (dedicated to you…)

Installation with sound element, 1999 (chair height: 128cm): Modified chair, soundtrack heard when the viewer is standing on chair, through headphones. Soundtrack is the song Dedicated to You sung a capella (22min loop).