Most Popular White Papers
NORRKOPINGS KONSTMUSEUM.(Ann-Sofi Siden)(Brief Article)
Artforum International, September, 2001 by Stjernstedt, Mats
ANN-SOFI SIDEN
At Manifesta 2, Ann-Sofi Siden presented the video installation Who Told the Chamhermaid?, 1998, which was shot in a hotel whose rooms, corridors, and service areas the artist had equipped with surveillance devices. Guests and employees alike were targeted when the cameras focused in minute detail on their daily routines, but the artist also staged some of the events. Unembellished document and fictive scenario intertwined, indistinguishable from one another.
In Siden's new work commissioned by Norrkopings Konstmuseum, one finds a similar formal construction in ...
Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.