For BEFNOED – an acronym for By Everyone, For No One, Every Day – we provide instructions for anonymous workers to film themselves performing various acts. Because they are hired through crowdsourcing services, we do not know who or where they are, or even their motivations. The videos are shown in galleries and dispersed on obscure, peripheral or forgotten social networks around the world.
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.
Installed at Carroll / Fletcher, London
Installed at Fondation Phi, Montreal
Ladder Somewhere, screenshot from video
Watering Fish, 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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