Friday Vacation

videos, 2012

Friday Vacation is a series of videos created out of a period of research on the idea of Robinson Crusoe as a contemporary concept of the self in relation to society. From this, Robin Quickly, a mysterious sailor, is fictitiously created along with an archive of his possessions. The archive is introduced in the videos, firstly in Friday Vacation, and multiplies and reconfigures throughout the series. Rehearsal moves through the archive guided by a female narrator (Meryl Streep). Through visual ruptures and the revelations of the narrator, the work interrogates the performance of self. “A Sailor’s Diary” is the final video in the series examining how fictions inform the self. The text is composed of lines from Daniel Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe, one of the most retold stories in literary history. Again the archive is invoked and made “strange”- that is, unstable - through a soundtrack of action that we cannot see.

Selected Screenings (videos from this series): VUACA (2017), VIVO Media Art Center (2016), Video Pool Media Arts Centre (2016), Museo Universitario del Chopo Mexico City (2016), Cinematheque Quebecois (2016), Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Columbia (2015), Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015), FACT/Picturehouse Liverpool, UK, MIX NYC (2014), 15th Paris Festival for Different Cinema (2013)