Laurine
WAGNER
artist
Artvirus.network, 2020-2021
Video and sound installation (in progress)
In the context of COVID-19 and the lockdown, technologies that allow for the connection between individuals have been more present than ever. Remote encounters were organised with Laurine WAGNER with the aim of dancing together via a software, following an immersive reading of one of her poems. By being connected to communicate freely through our bodies, emotions were evacuated which allowed everyone to free themselves. At the end of each individual or collective session, testimonials were made on the feelings of the participant(s) about the proposed experience and their experience in relation to this "strange" period. The virtual connection was thus exploited in order to create a link between the participating individuals through contemporary dance. In addition, sound testimonies of people who have been affected by the virus are combined with the final video and sound installation.
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Laurine WAGNER, Artvirus.network, 2020 (screenshot of Florence BAYARD, HD video, sound )
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Laurine WAGNER, Artvirus.network, 2020 (screenshot of Marie FRIEDRICH, HD video, sound)
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Laurine WAGNER, Artvirus.network, 2020 (screenshot of Lucas, Ornella and Lysiane BRAIDA, HD video, sound)
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Artvirus.network-home, 2020-2021
Installation of a suspended mobile, white thread, paper, wax with a seal, handmade and sent postal envelope, poem, a pattern of a paper house to be assembled by the curator, drawings and prints of 5 QR Codes, variable dimensions
5 HD videos [QR Codes], colour, without sound, 1'44
Artvirus.network-home, was conceived for the exhibition "Distanced Poems" organised by the curator Jorge SANCHEZ. A handmade paper envelope was sealed with a wax seal and sent. This envelope contains a poem linked by a thread to a pattern, also made of paper, which forms a house after assembly. The spectators, who can circulate, around the installation of this suspended mobile, are led to scan 5 QR codes placed on the walls of the house to discover assemblies of short silent videos in transparency.
Inside this "do it yourself" house, the movements of life progress despite the isolation and poetically externalize the feelings linked to the participants' experiences. The QR codes were made by hand to confront the issues of time and technique concerning the production of the "machine", but the inaccurate human hand did not allow the 5 QR codes to work. Thus 3 non-active QR Codes were replaced by the technical work of the "machine": a fast and perfect print?
