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Authentic - Not Authentic
Self practice from11/04/05 to 12/05/06

Item date(s): 2006

Marc Edwards


Medium: DVD and prints
Size: 590mm (prints). DVD instalation varies
Collation: Portable DVD player and digital prints
Technique: DVD; Digital prints
Edition: unique

Sub-type: Digital book
Theme(s): Self portrait

Place publication: (Johannesburg, RSA)
Publisher: The artist
Cat. 22
Exhibition 2006

Reference note:
Of the work, Edwards states: In this work I have used a technique of the self as a means of making, where cyberspace is considered as a site for practice. As a site of a politics of identity, where we have difficulty in truly identifying the authentic, I begin with the production of an online diary, not unlike a blog, not as confessional, but as self writing. I produce identifying documentation in an attempt at an authentic finding of my place in the world through a practice of care. Although this practice is rooted in writing and as a result refers to the idea of book, the outcome is a daily digital self portrait. These portraits are taken with my Sony Erricson P910i phone and processed in Photoshop.

DVD presentation on portable DVD player. The images are played onto two portable DVD monitors or split on the screen of one monitor to resemble 2 pages of a book. The DVD is acompanied by 3 digital prints as 'stills' from the DVD presentation.

Exhibition notes:
The work was commissioned for the exhibition 'Navigating the Bookscape: Artists' Books and the Digital Interface' where it was item 22.

Aardklop Arts Festival, Potchefstroom.

25th - 30th October 2006 and the

FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg.

5th - 13 October 2006

Ref: DP/10039















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