Grains of Salt   (The video) 1999
made with Sen McGlinn,
Jacqueline Wassen & Gaudi Hoedaya

Shown
2001: Performances Conditionnelles, Taller, France
        as a loop on a tv monitor.

        ARS gallery, Leiden, The Netherlands
        as a loop on a tv monitor
        viewed through a window from the courtyard.

        During the TamTam multicultural festival, north Leiden
        as a 6 minute 10 metre high video projection onto a wall
        as part of a programme of videos.

2000: Sarjeant Gallery,
        W-h-anganui, Aotearoa / New Zealand,
        as a 6 minute video on a tv monitor.

1999 As part of the video installation in
        The continuously expanding space...
        Het Archief, The Hague, 1999

        Wall projection at the PVA new media festival,
        Swipe, Bridport, U.K., 1999


Still from the video.
Go to the video page from which there are several formats of showing seconds from this video.


The 6 minute video Grains of Salt (1999) can play endlessly, just as the hands in the video seem to endlessly filter the salt. Sometimes this has been installed as a continuous video projection, sometimes small (10 cm high) as in the May 1999 exhibition and sometimes wall size as was done at the Swipe festival where visitors' silhouettes threw shadows onto the projection as they passed by.

This video is an extension from the performance "Making Salt" which was for the 1998 Inter Society for Electronic Arts Symposium.

In our information age, we are more conscious about filtering our information because we cannot possibly absorb it all. In some ways this is scary, because it means we have to make choices, while on the other hand there are choices to make.

The 'actors' in this video are the 4 artists and 2 children who were involved in making the video. Generally you see our hands engaged in filtering or playing with salt in our hands.


Most of the still and moving images come from snapshots from the lives of the six of us.

We took images out of our personal histories to serve as multi-layered backdrops for this theme on dealing with the information age.

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