Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth | Players

2009)

Players(2009)

documentation video

duration 2'

Players aimed to heighten sensual awareness of the staging of the Frieze Art Fair; mixing the premeditated and the spontaneous, what is to be scrutinised and what is not, what is appreciated and what is taken for granted.

The work was a panoramic video projection of staged managed events and everyday activity filmed live at the fair, transforming the exposition into a mise-en-scene featuring unwitting visitors, gallerists and fair workers. The installation was a montage creating an inverted view of the fair if through a Claude Glass, abstracting the complex carnival within its walls and giving random connections within it an aesthetically enhanced, filmic quality. Viewers could also go up to a platform on top of the installation to gain yet another view of the fair. As the entire fair became subject to and of the work, Players effectively changed the experience of viewing from spectacle to participatory event.

Texts:

Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth
Interviewed by Neville Wakefield

Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2009-2010