Video Statment
Through video we see a small part of the world more focused and direct. A fleeting thought caught on tape. We strive to capture, share and expose the unseen and overlooked, to find joy in the banal. With video we can discover a point in the pointlessness of everyday life.
For poetic adventure we never confine ourselves. In our work we love to play with the medium. We have used short clips of TV news footage, appropriated popular images and religious icons to present new concepts. We utilize the electronic-media-made collective unconscious to predict and break cliches. We aim to change what a viewer expects from the televised image, always bending and blending to reveal something new. It's hard to put into words the excitement we have for looking into another world. When we look through the camera we can never predict what the new remarkable thing in the viewfinder will become.
Objects on a table are a still life, the same objects transformed by video become cinematic, forcing us (the artists) to think in terms of dream, myth, pop culture, higher culture and history. In our pieces we sometimes choose common objects and toys to focus on our fascination with how the camera captures and communicates ideas. Without an over-built set, we can simply strip down to the essence of a complex subject.
It is our job to place the misplaced - and misplace the placed.