Zoran Todorovic
The video work "Sum" (Noise) was recorded with an "opened camera" designed to bypass the usual connotations of a camera as instrument of public discourse, coded by the State and/or other political or economical centres of power, and thus motivated by this coding. This hybrid of a security camera and a street instant photo automat has been placed at three different locations: a Belgrade square, in a psychiatric hospital in Belgrade and in a Serbian prison, recording stories, messages and performances of those willing to use it. The three stages define the three parts of the film. Capturing the live voices of different social groups, especially the ones commonly considered marginal, deviant etc., the usual system of representation and, more precisely, the concept of the representative, official interpreter, leader, journalist, expert and such, is addressed. "Noise" itself does not pretend to represent, it rather lets out a murmur into the coded system of social representation offering each voice, including the lowest one, the opportunity to be heard. Zoran Todorovic Belgrade |
