COLLECTIF_FACT, Geneva
CIRCUS, 2004. Installation

Circus deals in a very unusual way with the construction of space. The video work is based on digital photos of a busy square in Geneva that the artists dissembled into layers and subjected to digital animation. The installation shows a constantly moving view of the city that seems to be disintegrating. Set pieces of urban architecture, logos and passers-by float incalculably and vertiginously towards the viewers. On the basis of the photographic document of a real city, the artists create a three dimensionality that refers indirectly to the virtual 3D worlds of computer games, while at the same time deconstructing the unambiguity and coherence of their spatial order and hyperrealistic graphics. In addition, the work refers to the way in which we appropriate urban structures. The accelerated movement and navigation in the public space, results in the non-linear perception of our environment, the associative scanning of distinctive points of reference and landmarks and striking details. Accordingly, the customary conception of the city as a homogeneous, clearly structured unified whole, the basis of two-dimensional postcard vistas and the cartographic urban model, gives way to a fragmentary, fleeting, dynamic picture of urban space. (Text by Katrin Mundt)

 video Circus
 documentation Circus
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COLLECTIF_FACT
LOADING, 2006. Video, duration 42'', loop

The "loading" video shows the entrance of an underground car park. This space is built in a schematized way, close to the cardboard model. Identical vans continuously enter the building. Only the signposting elements distinguish themselves from the surroundings by their colours. The action creates a tension linked to the expectation of "an event", while its repetitive side tends to make the scene absurd and disconnect it from its disturbing referent. Therefore, while reducing elements to a minimum, we provoke a feeling of frustration between what happens and what could occur.

Edition of 5

The sold work includes 1 numbered mini_DV, a certificate signed by collectif_fact and 1 DVD with the movie looped.




 documentation / video Loading
 www.collectif-fact.ch