Grains of Salt
(the video), 1999, by Sonja van Kerkhoff
made with Sen McGlinn,
Jacqueline Wassen & Gaudi Hoedaya
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The 6 minute video Grains of Salt (1999) can play endlessly, just as the hands in the video seem to endlessly filter the salt. Sometimes this has been installed as a continuous video projection, sometimes small (10 cm high) as in the May 1999 exhibition and sometimes wall size as was done at the Swipe festival where visitors' silhouettes threw shadows onto the projection as they passed by.
This video is an extension from the performance "Making Salt" which was for the 1998 Inter Society for Electronic Arts Symposium. |
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In our information age, we are more conscious about filtering our information because we cannot possibly absorb it all. In some ways this is scary, because it means we have to make choices, while on the other hand there are choices to make.
The 'actors' in this video are the 4 artists and 2 children who were involved in making the video. Generally you see our hands engaged in filtering or playing with salt in our hands. |
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Most of the still and moving images come from snapshots from the lives of the six of us. We took images out of our personal histories to serve as multi-layered backdrops for this theme on dealing with the information age. ....more to come....under construction.... |
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the medium |  | c.v. last things first |