»Cosmos«, 2001. Two hundred empty video boxes are arranged on 40 linear metres of shelving. The jackets, borrowing from a very imaginary film genre, are all different, but each film is invariably titled Cosmos and made by Boris Achour. Each credit associates the most heterogeneous names: actors, artists, writers, philosophers, as well as close friends of Boris Achour. The title borrows that of a Witold Gombrowicz novel, self-described as “an attempt to organize chaos”. The piece is an adaptation of a novel in the form of a sculpture.
“Google Image Search“, 2004. Working from a list of around 70 words, covering a wide range of references and pre-conceived notions, Google’s image search feature was used to find the 20 most viewed images for each word, which were appropriated to create 60 second slide show-style videos. By Sandy Smith.