TO LOSE – A video commission by Arte Creative (2011), HD, 2min. 48sec. http://brodypaetau.com/recent-works/to-lose
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau present a fictional artist incorporated by an actor, presenting himself under the pseudonym “To Lose” and showing some similarities in size and clothing with his famous predecessor Toulouse Lautrec. His name is program: To Lose. Apart from sounding vaguely french and somehow familiar in art history it is the dooming failure contained in the artist’s name that is the focus of the work. To Lose is showing the struggle of an artist to ‘come up’ with an idea for his first solo exhibition in an ‘invisible dialogue’ with the public, ultimately transforming his struggle and his failure into a work of art ending with the last rebellious words of Toulouse Lautrec pronounced on his death bed to his own father: “vieux con!” (old cunt!). Warm regards, Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
