'Videos'
"Tirana" C-Print. Valéry Grancher 2003
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Vidéos:
Digital video is today a part of our daily environment. It's feeding fantasms and the personal mediatization phenomenon. It's farest than the image, closed to hallucination and psychological effects and diseases: Metaphor often used by VJ.
We don't need anymore to define narration, neither documents but mediation with images.
"Through the 'Global nomadism', try to define an exotourism critic."
Videos:
Tourism has its own aesthetic dimension dealing with subjective memory, individual memory sometimes saved on digital media. This fact is dealing with individual mediatization which may be public through internet (blog) or private (family environment).
I decided to reverse the process, to make as performances tourist tours in extrem place where tourist don't use to go...
-"Where is our mind ?" Produced on 2007 at Ny Alesund Spitzberg, Svalbard 79¡N 12¡E (with the support of the french polar institute IPEV): The sentence "Where is our mind ?" is sent with a balloon to over 33 000 meters high in the sky and then is falling down to earth: A // is done through this performance in between the Icarus myth and the scientific research...
-"Tanguntsa Amazonie 0" shot on October 2005, deep Amazonia: Ecuador/Peru border. Produced on 2006 (a coproduction France Culture, Radio France and Palais de Tokyo site de creation contemporaine, Paris, France)
-"Shiwiars" shot on October 2005, deep Amazonia: Ecuador/Peru border. Produced on 2005 (an expedition to a Jivaro tribe caled 'shiwiar' in Deep Amazonia)
-"Waouri" shot on March 2003 Douala, Camerun. Produced on 2003
In the country side of Douala in Camerun, on the Waouri river and islands on march 2003.
-"The Cape" shot on July 2000 a walk to the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Produced on 2003
-"Warzone" shot on July 2000 Johanesburg, South Africa. Produced on 2001
To move in the most dangerous place in the world: The most dangerous city in the world is Johanesburg, and the downtown is called 'warzone' (1 man shooted / hour; 1 woman raped / minute).
Today the memory I have regarding this experience is little bit wierd: I'm not scary, the light is beautiful and like in a visual dream there is no sound but a pure silence facing light. Even if there is no traffic jam because people scare to be killed in their car, even the pedestrians are runnning when our car is coming because they scare to be killed by us, light is still here. Even in nightmare light may be soft ...
Vjing Performances:
-"Exo" (sample) Live performance (V. Grancher and DJ Angel), Fotofest 2002 biennale, Houston, USA 2002.
-"Channel Too" (sample) Live performance, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa July 2000.
-"On air !" (sample) Live performance (V. and E. Grancher and Radio Mentale) at the Arles anthic theater , 'célébration de l'an 2000', Rencontres internationales de la Photographie d'Arles. Arles, France. (2000)
"Ambient videos":
Videos shown as video installation, or dead screen, no narration, just ambiance to move around ...
-"Ever" (sample) 1999
-"Matrix" (sample) 1999
"Neuronal videos":
Videos dealing with conscioussness, language, retinian memory versus consciousness memory ...
-"Recall" Digital video. January 2004.
-"memory" 1995.
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