By examining chance, individuals are invited to look at their vulnerabilities and mortality; and at the opportunities of the changing world.
Our artwork is inspired by French artist Christian Boltanki’s 2011 work Chance from the weekly course resources, the piece is made up of three works; Wheel of Fortune, Be New and Last News From Human. The work was first exhibited at the Venice Biennale and then at Carriageworks in Redfern, Sydney. John McDonald describes Boltanski in an SMH article as ‘representing the data of lived experience in striking, large-scale installations’. Through the three works Boltanski explores the notion of chance by raising questions on the disparity between life and death.
Our work is an interactive installation comprising of three elements. On the projector is a stream of faces cut into three sections to make a new face with each section changing at a different rate to create more combinations of faces. These include the eyes, nose and mouth of both ordinary people and celebrities, reflecting the diversity of mankind, whilst simultaneously reminding us how we are all the same regardless of appearance. The viewer has the ability to pause this projection and in return is given a generated face. In conjunction with Boltanski’s work, the audience is then confronted with what could have been and their own existence. Featured on laptops either side of the projector are live counters, the left is a counters of births with the number changing every second to multiples of 4 and the right the number of deaths per second multiplying by 2 each second. Andrew Frost comments on this in his video with the Guardian. He states ‘more than 100,000 births outnumber the amount of deaths per day… even if we manage to stay alive we will be so crowded and compressed in this space’.
Gerard Axiak, Tessa Dunford, Jessica Ly, Francis Sicat
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