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Conditions Necessary for a Virtual Existence
"Conditions Necessary for a Virtual Existence" is a meeting space between work and living. The installation features a 5-hour video call between the artist and "Ice Land" during an artist residency in Iceland (SIM). In front of the monitor a common desk fan shifts some mat-grass jammed into a circle of volcanic rocks. The work is a humourous but dry response to COVID 19, capitalism and vicarious experience.
An excerpt of the video work can be viewed here.
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Candace Couse, Installation shots from Conditions Necessary for a Virtual Existence, SÍM Exhibition Hall, Reykjavik 2022
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Candace Couse, Installation shots from Conditions Necessary for a Virtual Existence, SÍM Exhibition Hall, Reykjavik 2022
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Candace Couse, Installation shots from Conditions Necessary for a Virtual Existence, SÍM Exhibition Hall, Reykjavik 2022
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Candace Couse, Installation shots from Conditions Necessary for a Virtual Existence, SÍM Exhibition Hall, Reykjavik 2022
This work was generously supported by The Regan Peacock Fung Memorial Art Fund
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