ICEFISHERWOMAN 2011
Video AVI, 6min33sec, loop, 2010
I hired a young actress to act me, the artist, in an artificial
situation of an interview in which I took the role of the curators
standing behind the camera and asking the 5 standardized questions, and
she, the actress, took the role of the "artist". The final video was
presented together with other artist's interview, except, that it
offered an unexpected switch to whoever had put the headphones on in
order to listen this explanatory interview.
The title reflects on the metaphor behind the action of art-work
itself: the action of often “fishing” under extreme conditions. In the
same time it is a play with the relation of an art-institution and an
artists and the possibility of exchange. The exhibition space where I
was invited to exhibit has a procedure to record a video interview with
each artist that exhibits there, the curators them selves holding the
camera and asking each artist 5 same, standardized questions.
My approach is a critical reflection on this kind of “archiving”,
presenting and communicating art, since the curators themselves were not
personally involved in the development of works, but were merely
staging the interest in front of the video camera for a possible future
audience.
By trying to emphasize the comic aspect of this miss-understanding of
art and communication , I have used their 5 standardized questions as a
script for a video for which a young actress to presents herself as
Luiza Margan, and answer questions as if she would be an Icefisherwoman....
