2016
LE DROIT DE PARODIE
Pascal Lièvre
Dog Duet
2009, 2 mn 59
I made Dog Duet with two students from the Grenoble School of Fine Arts, who were taking my class. I have always dreamed of having Wegman’s video re-enacted by human beings. In the end of the day, this was the aim of the class. I was behind the camera with a ball, like William Wegman with his dogs. With my computer on my knees, I guided them with the ball and certain instructions. It was in fact quite simple, and after a few takes we decided that it was okay. Subsequently, the video was often shown after William Wegman’s original work in black and white. As in much of my video corpus, I have put myself in the context drawn up by the law and its exception to royalties represented by the right to parody, giving me the chance to be able to use any work at all without any authorization. By complying with the three parameters set down by law in the code of intellectual property, which are: making people smile, being sufficiently different from the original work, and doing no harm to the author. I think I have succeeded. PL
Gérard Cairaschi
M.O.V.I.E.S
2013, 5 mn
Film réalisé dans le cadre du projet '900
For the record, one of the major events of 1975 is still the end of the Vietnam War. For film, experimental film and video art, the year 1975 was rich in major works by directors and artists whom I particularly admire: Andrei Tarkovsky, Artavazd Péléchian, Stanley Kubrick, Jonas Mekas, William Wegman, and the visual artist Michel Journiac, the inventor of body art, whose most famous performance is a mass during which blood sausage made with his own blood was used to offer communion instead of bread.
The idea of bringing these 1975 works together and getting them to entertain a dialogue imposed itself quite naturally on me for this project. Dovetailing images from these works with the hunch, fuelled by the magic of editing, of finding and creating links and secret passages between these works. I discovered that all these works had wonderful links between them. Works so immense that I would never have dared to appropriate them for myself, in order to hijack them, with an infinite respect, without the chance and opportunity of this work proposal to do with the year 1975. GC
Dainius Liskevicius
La Caricature
Vidéo performance
Video performance La Caricature made according to the drawing of Vitalijus Suchockis, the famous Lithuanian caricaturist, humor magazine Å luota annual publication Å luotos kalendorius (Vilnius, 1971). This Soviet time caricature ironically reflects the attitude of the society towards artists and creativity of that time. However, this attitude still prevails in post-Soviet consciousness of our days. DL
Yann Vanderme
Hello !! (Not really a museum)
2016, 4 mn 19
Prix Jeune Création SYMEV, prix XPO
Two characters set off to discover a museum—which is not really a museum—and find it unexpectedly interesting, in an offbeat way. I wanted to come up with an alternative to our way of understanding reality. In a general way, I am trying to question our relation to reality. In particular the matrix of concepts which creates an interface between us and reality. YV.
Shahar Marcus
The curator
2011, 4 mn 25
The video work The curator offers a glimpse into « behind the scènes » of the art world which characterize mainly biennials and large festivals. The work is using comic effects and describe the art scene as a detached, elitist bubble. The video is built as a trailer like in the Hollywood film industry. The quick short scenes tells the story The revelation and the rise of the curator in the art world. Accompanied by a Hollywood style voice over narrator and a fast rhythm editing the work suggests a wider look on issues of our contemporary culture like idolizing celebrities and the instant superstars that are being born every new day.SM
Raphaël Bariatti
Le Popolöff Art Forum Press Show ( Jean-Loup Prudent)
2015, 5 mn
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Lyon
In his programme devoted to the discovery and dissemination of new faces in Art, Erik Popolöff is here interested in the work of the artist/sculptor Jean-Loup Prudent, a recent graduate of the APAREA… I deal essentially with the playful practice of the role, using what I have called “accepted schizophrenia”. My praxis and my research led me to the design and animation of puppets, which I endow with an autonomy, in particular thanks to the Internet interface. RB