MiekeBal
Installations
Don Quijote: Tristes Figuras / Sad Countenances / Tristes figures
Multi-lingual with English, French and Spanish subtitles, 16 channel video installation, 2019
The video installation, interspersed with photographs, consists of sixteen screens incoherently displayed. No linearity is suggested. For each screen seating is provided, offering time. They are welcomed by seating to encourage durational looking. Thus, visitors can construct their own stories. This combination of disorderliness and the comfort of seating is the material, practical, but primarily artistic concept of the exhibition. The sixteen episodes each have their autonomous point, meaning, and narrative content, but they are also related. That relationship is not fixed and is left to visitors to build. The visitor as co-maker is here the underlying concept.
Episode 2: Getting Ready, Setting Up, Setting Out
Episode 3: Woman as Anti-Suicide Bomb
Episode 4: Who is Don Quijote?
Episode 5: Conversation DQ / SP
Episode 6: Narrative Stuttering
Episode 8: Testimonial Discourses
Episode 9: The Failure of Listening, Cardenio and the Shrink Interns
Episode 11: The Great Peacemaker, versus Money
Episode 12: Pointless Altruism
Episode 14: A Hand and a Thread of Hope
Episode 15: Beauty Equals Money