Monday 11 February 2013

lter Bahnhof Video Walk, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

This interactive piece was disorienting and seductive. It was engaging enough for audience of Documenta who has the whole city to explore to investigate about 20 minutes of his time and mental/physical attentions.  It was living in two realities at the same time. One in your actual time and place and in the rail station and the other in the memory of events which was repeated by you going though. You could believe what you see on the screen and miss your feet on the ground. There was very subtle point where you'd realise you're actually in the station and not in the video. In this sense the transition point between present and past or real and fiction was keep going back and forth. The fact that this was happening with such a minimal tool made it even more interesting.

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