Stills from video
Installation view: Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen (DE)
Escalating perception / the visual need
2005 – 06, three channel videoinstallation, 5:00, 3 LCD monitors, 3
DVD players, synchronizer, headphones
Concept and direction: Christian Niccoli
Camera: Çâglar Ubay, Alp Sen
Researches: Esra Esenlik, Seda Gokçe, Gülsah Karadayi, Aytaç
Kokturk, Tolga Oral
Translations: Banu Karaca, Bilgin Ayata
Realized with the supported of:
Bogazici University - Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Istanbul
(TR)
Bilgi University - Department for Television and Cinema, Istanbul (TR)
Production grant, Autonome
Provinz Südtirol - Amt für Deutsche Kultur (IT)
Description:
This work, shot in location in Istanbul, investigates the look on people passing
by on the opposite escalator as a visual consumption of faces. The installation
wants to be a comparison between a consumption of medial faces from the Turkish
music channel “Kral TV” and real faces recorded at metro station
“Taxim”. As a linking point between those two elements, 18 to
21 years old teenagers from different areas of Istanbul express themselves
about the influence of visual media in their perception of reality. An example:
the 18 years old Alyze sustained that “when I look at people on an escalator
I don`t see them as their humans but as heads put on shoulders”.
©2007 christian niccoli. all rights reserved