Tony Oursler (b. 1957)
Getaway 2, 1994

My main excuse to list this piece here is its creative mix of media – sculptural installation and video – that succeeds to come across as much more integral entity than just assemblage of elements. Something about destabilising notions of identity and individual – perception plays pingpong between seeing someone hiding under the cushion and a video projection on a pile of objects… I also see an interesting alternative to live performance here…

Connection to my work here is primarily in intermedia – e.g. my soft sculpture “Soundcloud” as container for an album of field recordings “Waiting to be heard” that denies easy immediate genre and media classification and can be read as either integral piece or an assemblage dependent on the chosen perspective. However, I also have a number of videoperfomance experiments that I would be interested to present as more complex installations, and Oursler is showing some interesting ways to approach it.