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In Efemeriden the upper section of a skyscraper is shot from a distance. Miniscule like insects, inhabitants appear on the balconies and wave for a considerable time, to a point or event that is outside of the frame.

In this video Myriam Van Imschoot works with her own living surroundings, the highest residential tower of Brussels and 50 of her neighbors. Compertimentalized into the sections of their living units, they appear united for the viewer’s eye only.

Efemeriden is sometimes shown as a complement to a text-projection performance on waving. It was presented autonomously too, as a looped video.

Credits: Video: Myriam Van Imschoot. Camera: Pablo Castilla, in collaboration with Myriam Van Imschoot. Production assistant: Helène Göring. Artistic advice: Jo Huybrechts. Production: Dienst Nederlandse Cultuur van de Gemeente Schaarbeek.

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Efemeriden

2012

Introduction

In Efemeriden Myriam Van Imschoot focuses on the gesture of waving, as an act of communication over longer distances. The video work (HD, colour, 10'33") plays with far and nearness, visibility and invisibility, stretching the borders of what can be seen and yet is felt all the same. Waving becomes a vibrating image.

Screening list sneakpreview at Les Bains Connective in Brussels during the evening 'Coming Together', 17 October 2012. It was presented in galeries Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik), Berlin on 28 august 2013 and Techno Park Studios, Melbourne on 5 July 2014 as a looped video installation. It was shown as complement to a text-performance on Waving in Playground Stuk, in the frame of 18 Pictures 18 Stories (If I can't dance I cannot be part of your revolution), the graduation of MAR (Masters in Artistic Research) Den Hague, 6 July 2013 and in Literaturhus Bergen during the Symposium Collectivity, organized by Volt (November 2013).

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