Image Match 2

In-situ video performance-installation, time delayed and real time imagery in a room at the hotel Le Lutétia in Paris, as part of the Fondation Cartier’s Soirées Nomades and the “En Somme!” project by Marion Levy. Performance duration : 13mn, 2006.

Artistic Design: Magali Desbazeille, in collaboration with Marion Levy
Performance: Andréa Sitter
Computer programming: Jérôme Tuncer

Toutes les présences/clients passés font exister ce lieu. Combien de gens se sont This place exists through all of the presences/past clients. How many people have slept here? How many clients were forgotten by the personnel? I will not sleep until I have matched the images, not until I have matched them so precisely that they are no longer visible…

Description

There she is, lying on the bed. She moves the video projector. She sweeps an image across the room, trying to match it 1 to 1.

Clients who have slept here appear at a corner of the room, on a piece of furniture, their faces, gestures seem to be inscribed in the very walls of the room.

This is a memory-image of the place itself. In delayed imagery, images of clients entering the hotel disturbs the temporality. Today’s clients are also part of the place, and will leave a little of themselves in the hotel, and keep a little of the hotel in their memories. The woman’s face also appears real-time in the video image. She watches herself trying to go to sleep. Matching the memory-image and the image of the present becomes essential to the peace of mind she needs to fall asleep.

Thanks: N’nahahaudou Diavy, Thomas, Lilti, Xavier Michel, Chloé Réjon.

Producers and partners: Compagnie Didascalie, Fondation Cartier, Soirées Nomades Hors les Murs, Hôtel le Lutetia.