Video as Suburban Condition, text

Video as Suburban Condition is a compilation of videos that explores how self-publishing video websites like YouTube change how people imagine typically suburban places as settings for showing themselves to others. The videos show people performing in places that would normally lack all interest, like back yards, parking lots, roof tops and malls. Re-using found videos in two synchronized loops, the installation traces how those everyday places are experienced as places for performance and reenacting the actions of others. Each place, as ordinary as it may be, is re-imagined as a place for doing extraordinary things. It was initially made as a contribution to the exhibition Video as Urban Condition in the Lentos Kunstmuseum/Museum of Modern Art Linz.

Video stills, installation views, video excerpt.

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