Intermingling Brouhaha
Selected Still
Selected Still
2005
Single Channel video for Projection | 03:09
The video depicts pedestrian traffic on a busy shopping street (Kudamm’), where the space has been erased, creating the image of a hybrid public body as walkers mingle.
The sound component of the piece is composed of a series of texts read aloud and layered in a similar process to the images. The source of the text is the result of transcribing all linguistic fragments within the site where the filming took place.
Biography
The contingency of normality is the focus of Reed’s artistic and textual practice. Normality can only be apprehended as a given reality through social consensus, and this consensus is inherently plastic, malleable. The play with the plasticity (potential) of the normal, both conceptually and materially, constitutes the foundation of her practice. Reed’s (often) obsessive works [...]