SYNCHRONIZER (THE)

of VOGAN Cathy

FRANCE, 1996, 00:19:05

Production : CICV PIERRE SCHAEFFER, FEARLESS
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Love, Animals, Assembly, Self-portrait, Humour, Sex

Summary :
In art, as in life, we dream of and work on our body as if it were a perfectly tuned instrument. We invent machines that make us do things that are perfectly synchonized with a conceptual clock. They may be as literal as an alarm clock to wake us up, or a sleeping pill to knock us out. Or perhaps a contraceptive pill to turn love-making into a mere entertainment, or a breast pump to synchronize the thirst of men with the demands of one's working day ; any kind of medecine, traditional or homeopathic, all of which is essentially "unnatural", in its function of delaying death... (Extract from the catalogue of the 10ème Rencontres Vidéo Art Plastique - Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie)

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