MICHAEL SNOW
THAT / CELA / DAT & CO.

16 October – 27 October 2001

“That/Cela/Dat” is a video projection work that is built of precise durations of single words presented one after another on three screens in three languages.

It’s a son of my 1982 film “So Is This.”
“That…” is also about This.
“That” is how one refers, later, to what one identifies in the present, as “this.”
This word will become that word.
The “same” text is presented simultaneously, in sync, in English, French, and Dutch.

There is one giant screen and two small ones. The text, which is 17 minutes long, is shown, looped, in sequence on each of the screens, i.e., when it’s French on the big screen, it’s flanked by English and Dutch on the small screens. When it becomes English on the big screen, it’s flanked by Dutch and French on the small screens, etc.

While the 1982 “So Is This” was designed for a seated theatre audience, “That/Cela/Dat” specifically concerns and addresses a standing, ambulatory gallery audience.

—Michael Snow

Michael Snow’s triple video-projection installation “THAT / CELA / DAT” is accompanied by several other works, including “Sheep”, a new video-work; Still Living, a framed photo-work; and Observer, an installation.

 

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