For BEFNOED – an acronym for By Everyone, For No One, Every Day – we give instructions to anonymous workers to realize webcam performances. The performers are hired through crowdsourcing services, so we do not know who they are, where they are, or even their motivations. The resulting videos are then dispersed on obscure, peripheral or forgotten social networks around the world, in Cambodia, Russia, China, South Africa…
Exhibition views, Carroll / Fletcher, London 2016
Exhibition view, PNCA, Portland 2014
In the gallery, the placement of the monitors in the space is such that, in order to watch the work, viewers are forced into a series of physically awkward and bizarre positions, in a sense taking on the role of performers themselves.
Watering Fish (tapuz.co.il), 2013
Water Car (vbox7.com), 2013
Licking Rim (vk.com), 2013
Heads Tube (mypage.rediff.com), 2014
Head Hedge (mais.uol.com), 2013
Covered Blanket (youku.com), 2015
Bucket Salute (vube.pk), 2013
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