verena grimm
video-installation-works
boca-abajo
2 channel video installation with live Band music
Cine Morelos 1999/ Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico
The video was taken during the first project in Mexico to control the disease of Chagas (Kissing bug) in México. (Disease that exists all over Latinamerica but that Mexico didn't officially recognize until 1998). The footage documents in slow motion the interiors of several rural houses, that were about to being sprayed against the bug, and therefore in a special situation: furniture removed from its original spot, open and empty wardrobes, lifted matrasses and piles of things hidden under fabrics, etc . The video was simmultaneously projected in two sepparated but connected to eachother cinema rooms, while a local band of 10 musicians who were randomly placed between the spectators seats played funeral siongs.
Soundtrack: voices of a busstation ( the sound of this video has to be determined depending on projection context ).