« Cross Talk » by Paulette Phillips
October 12th, 2011 - January 15th, 2012
Showed in the collective exhibition « L’œil sur les rues » at the Parc de la Villette, Cross talk is a video installation from the Canadian artist Paulette Phillips.
Crosstalk is a term applied to the communication that organisms engage in when they are in distress. This film-projection loop is an extracted element from a film I made in which a woman causes a disturbance and stops a streetcar. We don’t see the disturbance, what we are left with in this installation is the space between – as we join in a circle and watch the invisible event we are caught staring at our voyeurism, ours and the people staring at the trauma, or disturbance.
Paulette Phillips, born in 1956 in Halifax (Canada), lives and works at Toronto. She’s a teacher at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her artistic work is about theater, video performance and plastic installation.
Parc de la Villette – accès Pavillon Paul Delouvrier
211 avenue Jean Jaurès – Paris 75019