Come have your picture taken standing on a westerner
This is the video documentation of a performance.
It is meant to be shown as an installation together with some of the 70 polaroid pictures and name sheets taken while filming. I've inserted some at the end of this video and you can also see the them on my cstudios page.
CONCEPT
The permissive, almost masochistic attitude the West often adopts in the hope past misbehaviors and violence
against the East will now be forgotten and important commercial relationships will not be compromised, is the
centre of this performance filmed in December 2008 in four very busy spots in Shanghai.
People walking by were invited to stop for a minute and let a photographer take 2 instant pictures as they
posed standing on or sitting on me, while I was laying on the ground. They could then take one of the pictures while
the other I kept as documentation along with a little sheet of paper where people wrote their contact details.
It is meant to be shown as an installation together with some of the 70 polaroid pictures and name sheets taken while filming. I've inserted some at the end of this video and you can also see the them on my cstudios page.
CONCEPT
The permissive, almost masochistic attitude the West often adopts in the hope past misbehaviors and violence
against the East will now be forgotten and important commercial relationships will not be compromised, is the
centre of this performance filmed in December 2008 in four very busy spots in Shanghai.
People walking by were invited to stop for a minute and let a photographer take 2 instant pictures as they
posed standing on or sitting on me, while I was laying on the ground. They could then take one of the pictures while
the other I kept as documentation along with a little sheet of paper where people wrote their contact details.
Comments 5
- Ina: A me piace che lo possa fare chiunque. la verità è che lo fa chiunque. Volevo essere un po' chiunque quando l'o fatto. Il mestiere si vede solo nelle foto (che purtroppo qui non si vedono) che ha fatto il mio amico fotografo François Trezin, bravissimo. A farsi camminare sopra non ci vuole nessun mestiere. Mica sono un fachiro!
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