christinakostoff
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C/Kostoff/14
Title: “Home Video 1983”
Size: 11X14X6”
Date: 2009
Materials: Constructed plywood box, Acrylic window pane, Constructed venetian style blinds out of styrene, Ipod video playing a converted beta video from 198, Carved Foam couch and figure (obscured)
Description: I constructed a miniature replica of a condo unit in downtown Toronto where I lived for one (lonely) year in 2008. The viewer can peer into the window through a set of blinds to see a lone figure watching their TV on a couch. What they can partially see and hear is footage of a home video from 1983. The figure is myself watching my family vacation in Vancouver, B.C., where I was born.
I wanted to share the experience of moving into a newly built home (box), and feeling annexed from any sense of personal history. I invite the viewer to peer into my unit watching me, peering into a TV screen, longing for a sense of home. The voyeur watches the voyeur.
14
C/Kostoff/14
Title: “Home Video 1983”
Size: 11X14X6”
Date: 2009
Materials: Constructed plywood box, Acrylic window pane, Constructed venetian style blinds out of styrene, Ipod video playing a converted beta video from 198, Carved Foam couch and figure (obscured)
Description: I constructed a miniature replica of a condo unit in downtown Toronto where I lived for one (lonely) year in 2008. The viewer can peer into the window through a set of blinds to see a lone figure watching their TV on a couch. What they can partially see and hear is footage of a home video from 1983. The figure is myself watching my family vacation in Vancouver, B.C., where I was born.
I wanted to share the experience of moving into a newly built home (box), and feeling annexed from any sense of personal history. I invite the viewer to peer into my unit watching me, peering into a TV screen, longing for a sense of home. The voyeur watches the voyeur.