Holy night, 2023
Video, 11'42
Video, 11'42
Oui, je me lèverai, et j'irai vers mon Père
Imagine you found yourself in Notre Dame cathedral back in 1948 for a totally bizarre Christmas mass. At times psychedelic, creepy, awe inspiring. In this video archival footage is manipulated to highlight the strangeness of ritual to the outsider. What for one group is considered upholding important traditions and perpetuating cultural memory and practice, can seem like alien acts from a different perspective. In this way we should question the cultural memories and traditions that we adopt in order to scrutinize how they serve us.
In this work a moving image recording of a Christmas mass has been amplified in order to demonstrate how cultural sites, such as the cathedral, can act as echo chambers for a particular ideology. Such sites project certain ways of being that can often go unquestioned. In this video work the ritualistic activities taking place are highlighted and amplified in order to explore them as strange manifestations of human cultural action.
In this work a moving image recording of a Christmas mass has been amplified in order to demonstrate how cultural sites, such as the cathedral, can act as echo chambers for a particular ideology. Such sites project certain ways of being that can often go unquestioned. In this video work the ritualistic activities taking place are highlighted and amplified in order to explore them as strange manifestations of human cultural action.