Vesna Bukovec

Zapping Unit

My video Champion is included in a project Zapping Unit by Marie Auvity and Keren Detton.

Exhibition: ZAPPING UNIT – Les Petites Formes (The Short Forms)
Location: Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson
Date: September 13 – October 19, 2008

About the project:
Zapping Unit considers the status and use of images. It is an ambitious content within a simple form: a sculpture of honeycombed cardboard with a video display for four spectators devised by Marie Auvity. This hybrid and deliberately fragile construction establishes a common space for the broadcasting and reception of video works. Provided with a remote control, the spectator can zap among 80 short films each less than 2 minutes. These “Short Forms” are brought together by the curator, Keren Detton. They consist in more or less completed films mixed with experimental try-outs or video documentation, and rarely find a suitable context in which to be presented. To each video correspond the artist’s statement. The spectators thus discover a hidden side of the artists’ practices and can zap at will to put together their own editing. Truly a moving exhibition, Zapping Unit moves from one place to another towards different spectators and will also travel to Seine-et-Marne this year.