HABITGRAM / artist:
/ beewoo
Giving rise to an immersion environment and performances that vary with spectator involvement, habitgram presents a mise en abyme of the exhibition space. habitgram is a surveillance coat that all visitors are invited to wear in turn. The coat contains several camouflaged mini-cameras that pick up the immediate environment. The images captured by these cameras are multiplied on the gallery walls through real-time projections. The immediate area, thus multiplied, offers various perspectives of the site simultaneously; all perspectives change as the coat moves. Enshrouded by the moving, staggered images, participants can be disoriented and sometimes experience dizziness.
While the person wearing the habitgram becomes the performer and a producer of images, visitors in the same space are integrated into these images and participate in the installation as well. By donning the habitgram, participants are encouraged to “wear” the place in which they are standing, to become one with it and to redefine it while visitors who appear in these videos become actors, also appropriating the space. They actively become aware of their position in this space.
Credits
The artist received support from the Centre interuniversitaire des arts médiatiques (CIAM) for the production of this project.
Curators's projects: À l'intérieur/Inside, INSIDE
