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VIDEO
EXPERIMENT / INSTALLATION
ARCHEOLOGY
OF THE PRESENT
Electronic Investigation of La Rue Guénégaud
GALERIE
GERMAIN, PARIS
MAY 1973
This
works forces the public to confront conventional distinctions
between past and present; inside and outside; spectator, participant
and object. A video camera installed outside the gallery provides
continuous live video footage of the adjacent street, which
is displayed on closed-circuit monitors inside the gallery
under the puzzling caption “In those days, la rue Guénégaud
was….” Simultaneous live video footage of the
inside of the gallery is displayed on a monitor in the gallery’s
outside display window. Items salvaged from trashcans in the
street are displayed like archeological artifacts. Expert
commentary is provided by Vilém Flüsser, Pierre
Restany, and René Berger.
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