VOLTA: Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács make video works that cannot just be pinned down to one aspect, but tumbles around in a twofold world. They often combine documentary footage with e.g. photo-animation in order to master distance in space and time. The aim is to bounce the viewer back and forth between involvement and distance, surely to rethink his/her own position, but also allow the viewer to sometimes just ride along, to be there. This meandering between two poles (conventions versus the individual reality) is a constant in their work. In the video Prime Time Paradise, we will present at VOLTA6, the self-created time between the cut out media-tableaux functions as a distant planet where one can wander about after one’s encounter with the reality of television, that is to say the flood of images of daily news and soaps and more.

Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Prime Time Paradise, 2004, videoloop 11 minutes, videostill