I went to see Koki Tanaka's 'Nothing related, but something could be associated' because I like video installations but his work did not do much for me.
The experience may have been tainted by having walked through Yoshua Okón's work first. I really didnt get this at all. It seems like he'd filmed something and then put it on as many screens as he could find but without purpose or synching the footage or anything. Just noise.
Koki Tanaka's room seemed over-worked and his videos under-worked. The room reminded me of urban outfitters - cheap wood everywhere. The videos themselves either weren't taken far enough (cups on car roof) or needed some serious editing (9 haircuts). Which left me disappointed because as ideas they sounded good.
However Katya Bonnenfant's "La Destitution de la jeune fille" was just one long hallway wall and was the best thing by far. Wallpapered but not the repeating kind with characters and sculptures sticking outwards - too dense to really take in the details. Four of the sculptures held mini projectors which added a moving element to the piece - a character who interacted with the printed details. I have no idea what it was about but visually it worked.
So maybe I don't like video installations after all.
http://www.ybca.org/exhibitions/
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