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• Title: James Coupe: Today, Too, I Experienced Something I Hope to Understand in a Few Days
• Author : Maria Walsh
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 50 KB

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In the expansion of western capitalist disciplinary societies into societies of control, the paranoia and internalised guilt characteristic of the former do not go away, but leak out whenever there is a rip in the immateriality of informational machines that track our movements and channel our desires in societies of control. James Coupe's online project Today, too, I experienced something I hope to understand in a few days operates between these modalities. The project was commissioned by the Lancashire-based digital arts organisation Folly for its Abandon Normal Devices (AND) project in spring 20i0 and was site-specific to Barrow-in-Furness, but it has been continuing since and will be part of the AND festival in Manchester this October. The artwork comprises three elements which engage with and operate within the readymade data banks of information and images that circulate in virtual space. The first element is a series of video portraits of volunteers, some shot by Coupe in Seattle where he is based, the rest shot in Barrow, using poses and actions loosely based on Danish experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth's 1967 film The Perfect Human. Coupe's title comes from a line in the film, which is perhaps better known as the occasion for Leth and Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions, 2003, in which Leth attempted to remake his original film five times according to von Trier's dictates. Coupe, however, follows the dictates of software. Having instructed his volunteers to grin, scratch, munch, jump and stare, all against a clinical white background which gives them the aura of police mug shots or 2ist-century screen tests, the videos are uploaded to a database where a programme automatically edits them in the style of Leth's film, their actions becoming jerky and strangely mechanical.

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