PARADISE ISLAND.

These selected works are kinetic and sensory installations that aim to disorient and disrupt the viewer through his senses. In the early parts of the XXth century, a sincere aspiration to see the viewer interact with the work was inherent to the Bauhaus school.Most specifically, Lazlo Moholy Nagy's experiments with light and space are striking. Through them he intended to address all of the senses of the viewer: sight, hearing, motion and even equilibrium. These installations intend to be perceptually strange.

A MANIFESTATION.was intended to be a project in two parts. The first, an installation, the second a catalogue mediating the experience of the artwork.

The installation is a surrealistic environment built of 5 parts, a video of the sun transforming to thunder, a dream machine (as originally devised by Brian Gysin and William Burroughs), a wall drawing of a cylindrical shape, a video of ghostly figures and lastly, a catalogue that documents it all. Each part relies heavily on its own relationship to time: time passing as the weather changes, time to make the drawing, to digest and to make a retrospective catalogue of the experience. All together they create confusion in the chronology events. The installation is marked by a sense of absence, as if someone had just left after setting up all of these devices. In this way, it introduces the viewer to the middle of an ongoing narrative. The visuals and sounds for the videos are sampled from b-horror movies or pop 80s bands and convey a Tarentino-esque feel. THE CATALOGUE. is a design-object which intends to mediate the experience through a glossary of sources, a series of essays and diary entries and finally a flip-book-style set of pages which re-creates one of the videos.

PARADISE ISLAND. is an installation in collaboration with Michael Bizon. The work combines my original experiments with ASPEN TREES. and a whole new set of found objects to create a staged environment. The name comes from the Adventures of Pinochio in which Paradise Island is a place where bad boys go to do bad things. The walls of the small space are flyered with pictures of totem poles, roller-coasters and helicopters hung upside down, the sounds is muffled and seems to come from above or below. A sense of the new emerging out of the old comes out of the stacked broken televisions which elevate the working ones. The collection of images is re-inforced by the animated gifs titled onto the screens.