Campo Kaiten Shot
1998
Video Installation
Campo ('field of vision' in Spanish) Kaiten ('rotation' in Japanese) Shot was shot in Lima, Amsterdam, Tokyo and New York with artists/performers based in these cities, using their own rooms as sets and their own monitors, tripods, beds and other props. The same actions are performed by four different artists in four different cities.
A performer has 90 seconds to wake up and get dressed. Then s/he starts setting up a tripod and video camera in the middle of the frame in 90 seconds. The performer operates the camera to record 'out of field of view', shown on the right wall of the audience, in a further 90 seconds. The tripod and camera are removed. The tape that has just been recorded by the performer is again inserted into the video set in the centre of the frame in 90 seconds. The video monitor in the centre of the frame zooms in and the next scene begins (the one that was supposedly shot).
Campo Kaiten Shot allows us to explore the double meaning of "out of the field of vision", the main concept of this work: Firstly, objects and actions that exist next to the image, but outside the frame. Secondly, objects and actions that exist within the frame but are not visible to the audience. These two meanings, associated with the concepts of 'time' and 'space', make Campo Kaiten Shot a tautological device that produces two movements; one that makes the space round and the other that makes it deep. The audience is at the centre of the hurricane, interacting with the projections.
Campo Kaiten Shot was shown at ARCO, the Spanish art fair, in a special section called "Project Rooms" (Gallery Trinta), curated by Rosa Martínez.
Performers: Begoña Muñoz (Amsterdam), Seiji Takeda (Tokyo), Andrea Ramos (Lima), John Lindell (New York).
