Date: 2023
Medium: Matching pair of video screens, one smashed, on fine. Synchronized media players, cantilever wall mounts.
Dimensions: Various.This series takes its name from a pair of medieval Latin texts that were produced as spiritual guides during The Black Plague, roughly translating as ‘The Art of Dying Well’. Each work in the series consists of two video monitors of identical model and manufacturer. One display has been physically smashed, the other presents a video documentation of the other display’s broken screen. When these screen were first installed, the screens were identical. Since a damaged screen is in a state of dying, it will change and degrades over time. As such, the two screens present images which will drift apart over time. By tethering the video to the materiality of a unique piece of hardware, these works are essentially materialist attempts to produce a unique video file. Over time the broken screens will completely die leaving only a mere simulacra of the sculptural video work on a single monitor. The videos in the background are all early films from the the late 19th-century depicting the outdoors.
