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| true looks takes over a store's webcam
system, intended as a marketing ploy for online clients to check out their
collection of smart Italian furniture. The artist's friends and colleagues
-dancer, cook, choir member -are sent into the furniture store located
in SoHo (NYC) as covert protagonists. Mingling with the clients, shop
assistants and teamsters they are instructed to initiate subtle dramatic
occurrences amidst the beds and sofas. Everyday patterns of consumer behavior
are being poached, subverted into micro-dramatic moments which are followed
and captured using the store's robotic webcam system. A selection of these
images distills the routines and surprises of daily life in the shop into
a series of episodes -part photo novella, part documentary -with text
by theatermaker
Richard Foreman. true looks was shown in April 2004 in Chicago at VERSION>04: invisibleNetworks as part the online exhibition vrsn.NET_WORKS and at Location One in New York City in June 2003. [overview of the installation] cast Kyle Bukhari, Dennis
O'Connor, Holly Weiss & Joe Schultz, Duron Jackson, Jocelyn Ruggiero,
Atsushi Ogata, Nathalie Angles & Charlotte Soehner, and many others. |
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