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…
Installed at Carroll / Fletcher, London 2016
Installed at Fondation Phi, Montreal 2019
Installed at 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, making their complicity inevitable.
Watering Fish, screenshot from video
Water Car, screenshot from video
Licking Rim, screenshot from video
Heads Tube, screenshot from video
Head Hedge, screenshot from video
Covered Blanket, screenshot from video
Bucket Salute, screenshot from video
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