Scan Artist

IPO -- Scan Artist
Peformance: Octavio Campos
Performance Length: 2 hours
Peformer: 1
1st performance: October 1, 2005


Scan Artist is a time based performance installation where spectators turn into spectactors inadvertently becoming part of the IPO product. Dr. O , IPO spokemans, steals the identities of his consumers through a detailed and interactive interview process. These interviews are documented and digitally processed via video tape and scanner culminating by a powerful cathartic moment the annihilation of a photo copy machine. IPO The Scan Artist is a component of IPO - The Insane Performance Opportunity which offers the spectator an eccentric and profound look at the creative and administrative forces shaping the arts in the 21st century. IPO engages the public in a conversation which interfaces the vocabulary of art with business, and movement with visual/ time-based media.

Performance artist Octavio Campos, film/video artist Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez and visual artist Michelle Weinberg have been collaborating on IPO, a multi-disciplinary work since 2004. IPO examines how the intuitive, fluid nature of the artistic process is both disrupted and energized by the insertion of banal economic facts. By fusing movement, scenic design, sound, video and animation, Campos, Rodriguez and Weinberg create an experimental forum in time and space on the status of the artistic process and product today. IPO advances a coherent theory of art economics by adhering to a corporate structure. The action and visual elements of IPO transgress the boundaries of the proscenium as well as the usual discourse of art making itself, progressing according to the distinct phases of launching a business venture. The tangible components of IPO include movement, spoken word, sound, video/ film, set decor, and a web element, for more info visit www.ipo-worldwide.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• performance
• art
• installation

[gnamp]

poor us (-:

[bodypainter99]

poor machine ;-(