Lugar: Freerk Bos
Sonido: Rabiâa Benlahbib
Asistente de grabación: Gerco Aerts
Año: 2007. Duración: 12.53min. Formato: instalación de 2 canales miniDV/Pal/colour/sound.
Visions of William Living, pieza realizada como site specific para The Filmhuis (The Hague, Netherlands) que nace de la colaboración de los artistas neerlandeses Pia Wergus y Arjen de Leeuw.
Toman como punto de partida la ciudad de la Haya y su política de desarrollo constructivo y de cómo éstas políticas deciden y definen nuestro paisaje cotidiano.
William representa al arquitecto que va más allá en esta reflexión. Las hormigas, en el vídeo, representan la inconsciencia de la utopía del desarrollo.
«When we developed the idea for this work the
city of The Hague had been a
huge building site for many years. Whole neighbourhoods were newly built.
It triggered our fantasy imagining the architects creating the structure
in which generations would live their lives. Walking down a street
seems like a choice one can make but suddenly we got painfully aware of
the fact that someone had decided to put a road just there for us to walk
on.
William Living is our idea about an architect taking his visions and ideas
just one step further than expected.
The anthill in the video is an almost divine building. Made by insects who
do not have brains. The utopian visions of the architect stay utopian, visualized
huge building site for many years. Whole neighbourhoods were newly built.
It triggered our fantasy imagining the architects creating the structure
in which generations would live their lives. Walking down a street
seems like a choice one can make but suddenly we got painfully aware of
the fact that someone had decided to put a road just there for us to walk
on.
William Living is our idea about an architect taking his visions and ideas
just one step further than expected.
The anthill in the video is an almost divine building. Made by insects who
do not have brains. The utopian visions of the architect stay utopian, visualized
in the head of the spectator.
What is real is the anthill. The end of the film can be seen as a moment
in which William Living is forced to snap out of his visions, and is unable
to accept their confrontation with
reality.» (Pia Wergus and Arjen de Leeuw).What is real is the anthill. The end of the film can be seen as a moment
in which William Living is forced to snap out of his visions, and is unable
(Por Luisa Fraile)
