VIDEOBAR #1 : Philippe Fontes + duo Audinet/Marty
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25/09/2008
Gallery of the art of time – Chapelle de l’Oratoire – Clermont-Ferrand
Audiovisual performance
Like a musician, I want to be able to intervene live on my images, whether it be with the help of a computer but much more frequently through a scenic device captured by one or more cameras.
If I had to define my installations in two words, it would be – to let go -.
I always put at the heart of my devices a simple thing, a lump of sugar, soap bubbles, ants, then I choose the elements to which they will be subjected, my intervention being limited to maintain the process, I like to make an analogy with the game of Go; a simple space a simple rule but extraordinarily complex variants..
Philippe Fontès
PHILIPPE FONTES, photographer / video artist.
Born in 1966 in Paris, lives and works in Saint Etienne.
His first photographic works of the 80s are strongly influenced by the principles of direct photography. This self-taught artist also uses video
since the end of the 90s. At that time, his taste for improvised music led him to collaborate with various musicians and composers.
In 2004 he co-founded the collective PLUSMOINS.