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VIDEO LESSON No.1: “THE CAMERA”
2002. Single channel video
Aprox. 3:45 min

I made this piece in 2001, during a residency in the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the only time I’ve used surveillance cameras. For days, I monitored the inside and outside of the building where my friend Suzanne Poag lived in. Unfortunately, the cameras recorded “information” on people who thought they were doing things in hiding, when they were actually in plain sight of my video surveillance. I edited the footage alongside a text from a manual guide from the first domestic video camera (Sony Handicam) to come out on the market during the 80´s. The manual lectures on the meaning of ethic responsibility when recording videos from other people’s lives.

Esta pieza la hice en Cincinnati, Ohio durante una residencia en el Contemporary Arts Center en el año 2001. Es el único trabajo que he hecho usando surveillance cameras. Consistió en “vigilar” el edificio donde vivía mi amiga Suzanne Poag, por dentro y por fuera durante unos días. Desafortunadamente, las cámaras grabaron “información” de personas que creían hacer cosas a escondidas en el edificio cuando en realidad se encontraban delante de mis camaras de vigilancia. El desarrollo del video lo edité junto a un texto del manual de la primera cámara de video doméstica (Sony Handycam) que se vendió al público en los años 80’s. En este se explica lo que significa la responsabilidad ética que encierra “contener” en video pasajes de la vida de los demás.

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Raúl Cordero Studio
  • NEWS
  • ARTWORK
    • 2023
    • 2022 – 2021
    • 2020 – 2019
    • 2018 – 2017
    • 2016 – 2015
    • 2014 – 2013
    • 2012 – 2011
    • 2010 – 2009
    • 2008 – 2007
    • 2006 – 2002
    • 2001 – 1996
    • VIDEO WORK ARCHIVES
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • VIDEOS
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • TEXTS
    • Raúl Cordero: An Art of Transition
    • Raúl Cordero and The Measure of Art
    • Raúl Cordero: Video Without Video Equipment
    • New Rules of the Game: Painting As Process
    • Being Raúl Cordero: Aporias of Painting
    • Raúl Cordero: Seeing it my way
    • Painting… and why not?
    • La pintura de Raúl Cordero o la sacralidad de la imagen
  • REPRESENTATION
  • CONTACT