Outstanding artists

World dance: Marie-Jo Lafontaine is an

installation, film and extraordinary montage
depicting four dances, and in these films, five
women are engaged in the movements and
rhythms of the tango, the flamenco and
oriental dance. Hence, Dance the World! Not
only becomes a metaphor for desire and
violence, but also a clarification of the female
condition, her power and her freedom,
transcended by sensuality, the human body
and passion. This film, however, is not only
carried by sensitivity. In the film the mirror that overhangs in the room where the women
are dancing and which periodically appears as a symbol of the film within the film. The
mirror makes the audience view the image as infinity. Behind the rich passion, the mythical
dance, these timeless women, there is the restrained passage from black-and-white to
colour, from static image to moving image, the rotational motion of cinema and finally, the
soundtrack, which engenders an outline of the artists poetic resonance. In short, its a
journey into appearances on film, which suddenly, becomes an illusion about the nature of
illusion itself. In this piece, Marie Jo-Lafontaine uses the technique of multiple screens
displayed around the room to create the feeling of vastness.

24 hour psycho: Much of Gordons work is

seen as being about memory and uses
repetition in various forms. He uses material
from the public realm and also creates
performance based videos. His work often
overturns traditional uses of video by playing
with time elements and employing multiple
monitors. Douglass work often overturns
traditional uses of video by playing with time
elements and employing multiple monitors,
much like Marie-Jo Lafon-taine and Matt Mullican. One of his best-known art works is 24 Hour
Psycho (1993).The work consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred Hitchcocks 1960 Psycho
slowed down to approximately two frames a second, rather than the usual 24.As a result it lasts for
exactly 24 hours, rather than the original 109 minutes. The film was an important work in Gordon
early career, and is said to introduce themes common to his work, such as recognition and
repetition, time and memory, complicity and duplicity, authorship and authenticity, darkness and
light.