One of the pieces that really stood out for me was a video project called ‘Six Apartments’ by Reynold Reynolds. The content in the video was quite shocking due to the fact that it showed graphic footage of objects biodegrading. I thought that this pieces was very interesting, however it resonated with me much more once I found out about the cultural and critical elements the worked behind it.
“Reynolds’s video installation Six Apartments is a poetic narration of resignation and decline which documents the life of six people in their apartments. The inhabitants live isolated, unaware of each other, without drama – they eat, sleep, watch television – even though their lives are overshadowed by mass media generated problems of the larger world and the upcoming ecological crisis.” (1)
I thought that the concept that people are so wrapped up in their own everyday lives that they don’t realise what they are doing, or indeed what was happening around them was very provocative. I think that this has strengthened my belief that a good concept can make anything work.
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(1) http://www.transmediale.de/en/nominatedworks-main
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