Genre :
Interactive immersive installation - Virtual Reality
SUBJECT:
Automation and Intelligence.
YEAR:
2024
Artist
Sara Daher
TAKE A STAND-READYMADE
About:
"Take A Stand: An interactive ready-made between automation and intelligence."
Take A Stand is an interactive, immersive, and interdisciplinary installation.
Description of the Take A Stand installation:
It consists of:
A ready-made treadmill connected to the PacMan video, both rendered interdependent and interactive.
A sculpture made of recycled materials.
A sound station with two phones containing intimate voice exchanges, a travel book, and personal poems.
A short film made in Paris and filmed in Beirut, Lebanon in 2022.
Until It Stops: Throughout the installation, a looped projection runs on a wall counting numbers up to 85,000 and recounting the official number of victims of wars in the Middle East since October 7, 2023.
The video is projected on a blank wall and unfolds in silence. This montage revolves around a desire for information.
While we "experience the exhibition", the numbers continue to scroll.
Thus, the interactive installation is fixed in the moment lived." Sara Daher
Sara Daher © , Take A Stand treadmill Ready made, Sound pole, Model of the interactive installation. Pen and pencil on A4 paper, April 2024.
Sara Daher, Until It Stops, CountUp Video, April 2024.
Throughout the installation, a projection loops on a wall counting in numbers up to 85,000 and recounting the official number of victims of wars in the Middle East since the date of 7 October 2023.
The video is projected onto a blank wall and unfolds in silence. This montage revolves around a desire for information.
While we 'experience the exhibition', the numbers continue to roll.
On the centerpiece, the Ready Made treadmill, an screen is positioned on which this video game runs. The video interacts with the treadmill and is dependent on it.
Sara Daher, Eat The Rich, video game animation, April 2024.
Move the mouse or tap the PACMAN figure directly on the screen below to play the video game: Enable sound.
Following the Trajectory of a Bullet
Sara Daher, Sculpture Following the Trajectory of a Bullet at 100m, wood, iron wires, neon wire, acrylic, 85x15x20cm, Paris, April 2024.
Sound Pole:
« A high table offering two telephones and headphones that play voice exchanges.
On this table, we also find a travel book containing personal works: photographs from a trip across post-2020 Lebanon and poems extracted from my collection Dreams and an Essay. These poems are of the graphic illustration type and/or simple writings on A4.
My short film 7elwa Ya Baladi is shown on this same installation table, on the screen of a tablet.
This film follows a motorcycle journey through hedonistic Beirut nights and recounts the simultaneous joy and violence experienced by Lebanese youth, which has intensified since the economic and socio-political crisis in 2019. War is ugly, but life is not. It is in a desire to remain true to the reality lived by Lebanese youth that the intention to integrate my short film into the installation pole exists. »
Sara Daher, 7elwa Ya Baladi, Short film made in Beirut in June 2022.
War Architecture:
Sara Daher, Architecture of War, Model made of recycled materials, Acrylic, Beirut, 2021.
“Interaction with the artwork becomes a way of perceiving a reinvented world where the spectator, far from being passive, becomes a co-creator of the artwork.”
— Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics, 2001.
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