Learning from Las Vegas

2003, Installation with suitcase

This work uses as its raw material footage from 21 different films in which the city of Las Vegas is used as a setting. Each individual shot is organised according to descriptive categories and taken as a lesson learnt from or about the city of Las Vegas and its inhabitants. For example, ‘learning from fountains’ includes all shots of exuberantly erupting fountains. The idiscs are embedded in an elaborately wall papered suitcase.


Exhibition History

CUT, FILM AS FOUND OBJECT IN CONTEMPORARY VIDEO, 2005, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM, 2004, The Project, New York, NY

LEARNING TO WATCH, 2004, Sala Rekalde

STARDUST, 2003, San Jose State University Art Gallery