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- 2005 (Accumulation)
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Video
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Scope and content
SIGHT/SEEING explores our relationship with notions of wilderness in a globalised era. Part dystopic travelogue and part wildlife documentary, the piece explores our relationship the natural environment, based on received notions handed down by the mass media. Tourism has created a process of commoditization of the natural world, typified by the modern safari, based upon experience as spectacle, consumed through the lens of the domestic camcorder. The video explores a phenomenon where spectacle undermines experience, and seeing becomes secondary to recording. Increasingly absurd photographic defects and the behind-the-lens presence of the tourist move us towards a position where the romantic tourist gaze is made concrete in the recorded image; a world seen through an experiential filter that cannot be removed.
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Press: Yes; Catalogue: Yes; Itinerancies: Yes; Online archive: No; Television: No
Conditions governing reproduction
Permisos: premsa, catàleg, itineràncies
Language of material
English
Script of material
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Llengua: Inglés
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ovni-archives: Tue, June 12, 2007 5:18 pm
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- Chris Oakley (Accumulator)
- Chris Oakley (Subject)
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Catalan
Script(s)
Latin
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