i am a channel - Ostend-model

LCD-videoprojector, laserprint, polystyrene, sand

H 0.3m x W 1m x L 3m

creation: March 2001

featuring Esther Kloet and Sanny Cleef,
dansers of the Royal Ballet of Flanders

i am a channel / Ostend model - is a scaled-down variation of the installation 'i am a channel' created in 1999.
In this vaiation the walls are 2 halves of a polystyrene hill covered with sand taken from the site of the exhibition, i.e. the beach at Ostend.
Further more, this variation shows an elaborated videoprojection, showing not only the artist himself, as in the early version, but also a naked woman and man, walking through the corridor and through eachother.

The "channel" variations all deal with an attempt to relativate the artist's ego by suggesting that rather than creating things out of the blue he's more of a filter, a passage of different impressions of the world in and around him. He can only be "original" in his selections and/or recombinations of these impressions.

The work was shown at the group-exhibition "Kama" in The Venetian Galeries in Ostend, curated by choreographer Marc Bogaerts