Jestertag

2013 |16:9 video Projection | 2 × 3.6m polystyrene Screen | Fishing Line support | colour | stereo sound | German & English with subtitles | 7’ 50

There’s really no expectation of privacy in a public place anymore in this world. — Phillip-Lorca diCorca

In Jestertag, I speak with people in the streets and parks of Vienna about long distant memories of each site but I am completely ignored, even when putting my arm around sightseers posing for offscreen photographs. As a composite of two separate time frames, I watched strangers from a distance using a long telephoto lens, entering each scene to improvise with randomly selected individuals only when they had already left it. My vocalised private recollections shared in public space explore the limits of free speech in the context of surveillance and voyeurism. They also consider the parallel (dis)connections between collective memory and fleeting personal memories of the mundane, overlooked, and even forgotten. The work's title is an amalgam of English and German. A Jester walked a fine line in an attempt to entertain at court. Tag is both a social media term for the retrospective identification of individuals and the word for day in German. This Project was produced at the AIR-Artist in Residence program in Krems an der Donau assisted by the Austrian Government and facilitated through RMIT University School of Art.

Produced at the AIR-Artist in Residence program in Krems an der Donau assisted by the Austrian Government and facilitated through RMIT University School of Art.

EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE

NÖ DOK für Moderne Kunst St. Pölten, Austria
22.11.13 – 5.1.14

MARS Gallery Melbourne AU
12.12.13 – 20.12.13

Wallflower Photo Media Gallery Mildura AU
S9.9.14 – 9.10.14

Non-Sites in the City, NO-GO Vienna, Austria
19.6.15 – 28.6.15