Exhibition in Arles
Métamorphose(s) opens tomorrow. This is an exhibition in which Antony Cairns, Stephen Gill, Galerie Christian Berst, NSDOS, Bill Viola and myself show work in collaboration with Publicis Luxe. See the invite below.
The show is curated by Julien Frydman at Les Collatéraux in Arles and runs during the opening weeks of the Rencontres d’Arles from July 3 – 12.
I have collaborated with Guillaume Gaud of Publicis Luxe to create an interactive spatial installation based on my book of found conversational phrases A Dialogue in Useful Phrases. Two chairs will invite the audience to be actors in the work. By sitting down, a viewer will automatically cause a series of conversational phrases to start appearing (basically a monologue, as if reading only the left pages or only the right pages in the original book). When a second person sits down in the other chair, a second series of conversational phrases starts to appear in answer and a dialogue in useful phrases will ensue. This serendipitous dialogue of miscommunications will be different each time because it will be influenced by when exactly each person sits down.
Elisabeth Tonnard 