HANNE NIELSEN & BIRGIT JOHNSEN _ VIDEORAUM

  DK   UK

Keeping it simple/ Freeing your soul / PoP art.

9:28 min. 2008

The videos shows 4 young people popping popcorn - one corn at a time in a spoon above a candle. The action is stretched into a meditative flow.

The video work re-create and re-examine the seventies relation to time and contemplation.

The tableau relates to meditative existentialism, philosophical absorption, the pleasure of narcotic drugs, as well as to narcissistic isolation.

 

     

 

At the exhibition Decembristerne 2008 an outdoor installation was establish parallel to the indoor video screening. Here it was possible equal to the action in the video to make a popcorn in a spoon above an oil-lamp. In a Television screen the popcorn were visible just in the same second, when they were jumping