a Canadian installation artist
Born in Brussels
studied at Queen's University (BFA) and the University of Alberta (MVA)
George Bures Miller
a Canadian artist
noted for his collaborative works with wife Janet Cardiff
The Paradise Institute
Materials: Mixed Media
Duration: 13 min.
Dimensions: 5.1m x 11m x 3m high
It won La Biennale di Venezia Special Award at Venice
What is The Paradise Institute?
“a new artistic format located between disciplines.”
A hybrid genre, The paradise Institute takes aspects from video projection, audio, and performance.
Viewers approach a simple plywood pavilion, mount a set of stairs, and enter a dimly lit interior complete with red carpet and two rows of seats.
They peer over the balcony onto a miniature replica of a grand old movie theatre created with hyper-perspective.
There is the “visual film” and its accompanying soundtrack that unfolds before the viewers; layered over this is the “aural action” of a supposed audience.
The film is a mix of genres: it is part noir, part thriller, part sci-fi, and part experimental.
Focus on the language and experience of cinema.
a 16-seat movie theatre where viewers watched a film
every individual in the audience experiences through the headphones.
The sense of isolation each might feel is broken by intrusions seemingly coming from inside the theatre.
A cellphone belonging to a member of the audience rings.
A close “female friend” whispers intimately in your ear: “Did you check the stove before we left?”
How’d they do that?
record and re-record
Cardiff and Miller were their own movie producers, writers and cameramen.
The Killing Machine
Materials: Mixed media, sound, pneumatics, robotics
Duration: approx. 5 min.
Partly inspired by
Franz Kafka's 'In the Penal Colony’
the American system of capital punishment as well as the current political situation
the piece is an ironic approach to killing and torture machines
The moving arms
The electric dental Chair
A moving megaphone speaker encircles an electric dental chair.
The chair is covered in pink fun fur with leather straps and spikes.
A disco ball turns above the mechanism reflecting an array of coloured lights while a guitar hit by a robotic wand wails and a wall of old TV’s turns on and off creating an glow.
two robotic arms that hover and move- sometimes
like a ballet
sometimes attacking the invisible prisoner in the chair with pneumonic pistons.
In our culture right now there is a strange deliberate and indifferent approach to killing. I think that creating this piece comes from a response to that.
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