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show / project
The Spectacle Is Not Over
January 27 - 24 March, 2002
> JOHN CURTIN GALLERY
Curtin University of Technology
Kent Street, Bentley
Perth - Western Australia
www.johncurtingallery.com
exhibited work(s)
Le Spectacle n’est pas terminé (The Spectacle Is Not Over), 1998.
Video installation. DVD, duration: 2min. looped. Ed. 3 + II A.P.
Passerby on the Champs-Elysée Avenue, reading to the TV camera, excerpts taken from ‘La Société du Spectacle’ by Guy Debord.
Apparitions (1993-95 selection), 1995.
video installation. TV set, DVD player, articulated wall bracket, video transfered onto DVD, duration: 13 min. 50 looped with english subtitles. Ed. 3 + II A.P.
TV excerpts : Tournez Manège (TF1, March 19, 1993), Français si vous parliez (France 3, April 28, 1993), Frou Frou (France 2, February 26, 1994), Vincent à l’heure (France 3, December 2, 1994), Rapido annonces (MCM, December 12 /18,1994), La Grande famille : "Je ne sors pas de chez moi" (Canal +, January 5, 1995).
press release
press release
The Spectacle is not over
and Apparitions
Matthieu Laurette
27 January - 24 March 2002
Laurette chooses the Champs-Elysees in Paris as a set, and interviews passing people with a professional TV crew. He stops the passer-bys and invites them to read exerpts from The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, holding the cue cards just beside the camera so the monologues appear spontaneous. He attempts to exploit the transformationof life into an endless accumulation of spectacles and creates a parallel economy of images, starting with himself.
Apparitons combines Laurette's multiple television appearances, starting with his first televised performance in 1993 on the set of Tournez Manege (Blind Date). He has also appeared as a candidate on a game show, a talk show and been an audience member of numerous broadcasts. He is "the illustrious nameless one who...uses up his fifteen minutes of fame so dear to Warhol" Documents sur l'art
These exhibitions received financial support from the Perth International Arts Festival.
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John Curtin Gallery website www.johncurtingallery.com
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