Drawing Inspiration: Pierre Huyghe’s “No Ghost Just a Shell”
“No Ghost Just a Shell” was initiated when French artists and frequent collaborators Pierre Huyghe and Phillippe Parreno paid a visit to an agency that produces and sells animated stock characters. Anyone, from animators to advertisers, can go to these agencies and, in essence, buy an actor. The artists bought a Japanese manga character by the name of Annlee. Huyghe and Parreno used the original computer file as a starting point for an extended exhibition process in which several artists have been asked to appropriate the character and make a short digital animation that brings Annlee to life. (Text here from 2003 show at SFMOMA.)
Here is a link to a video of the artist discussion the project.
Image above:
Pierre Huyghe, “One Million Kingdoms” (2001).
