100 Videos, 2023
Collaborative event
For over a year, artist Darren Nixon and I (under the artist duo name Rowland’s Leaving) each made a 1 minute film every week which we published on Instagram. Our event 100 Videos was conceived as a means of presenting 100 of these videos to a live audience at the same time; recontextualising a formerly digital experience within a gallery setting.
For 100 Videos we invite an audience of 100 people to become collaborators in the creation of our event by surrendering their smartphone on arrival. Each of these phones becomes a screen on which we present one of 100 videos, which are looped for the event’s duration of 100 minutes. Throughout, we spontaneously re-enact scenarios from some of our videos in a series of live action breakouts.
100 Videos hinges on an unusual exchange of trust between audience and host through testing the limits of communal resource sharing. The event also encourages a temporary offline community to emerge, emboldening an audience to interact more than usual with the work - which they have been part of creating - and one another.
Collaborative event
For over a year, artist Darren Nixon and I (under the artist duo name Rowland’s Leaving) each made a 1 minute film every week which we published on Instagram. Our event 100 Videos was conceived as a means of presenting 100 of these videos to a live audience at the same time; recontextualising a formerly digital experience within a gallery setting.
For 100 Videos we invite an audience of 100 people to become collaborators in the creation of our event by surrendering their smartphone on arrival. Each of these phones becomes a screen on which we present one of 100 videos, which are looped for the event’s duration of 100 minutes. Throughout, we spontaneously re-enact scenarios from some of our videos in a series of live action breakouts.
100 Videos hinges on an unusual exchange of trust between audience and host through testing the limits of communal resource sharing. The event also encourages a temporary offline community to emerge, emboldening an audience to interact more than usual with the work - which they have been part of creating - and one another.