LA
Video still
Video still
Video projection with sound | 2003 | 1:25 loop
LA depicts a band of flyers soaring and gliding over a simulation of the terrain and coastline of the Los Angeles area. Their avatar-like character is heightened as they effortlessly sail above the city where, multiplying, they repeat a choreography inspired by science-fiction action movies. Their replication foregrounds the challenges posed by electronic information overload, which is represented visually by a trope made familiar by science-fiction cinema and 3D simulacra: the multiplication and release of decoys as strategic diversion in critical situations. The decoy succinctly poses the ultimate existential question: Can we discern the real one and, by extension, reality? While offering us the pleasure and boundless freedom of maneuvering above a populated space, the video projection also hints at a possible menace hovering virally over the city.
Credits
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Performer:
Lynne Marsh -
Camera:
Aubrey Fernandee -
Rigging:
Geoff Ruttan -
Image source:
NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory -
Production support:
The Banff Centre for the Arts -
Funding:
Canada Council for the Arts
Related Texts
Landscape Immersion: Lynne Marsh’s Performative Spaces
Author: Johanne Slone
Art Papers, 2006
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