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Mein Blick (My View)
by Patrick Alan Banfield
2017, 10’7′
Presented at VISIO. Moving Images After Post-Internet (2019)
Courtesy of the artist
With the virtual reality installation My View, the artist invites one spectator at a time to an immersion in his video archive thanks to a VR Oculus Rift headset. A mash-up of images and sounds is alternatively projected on five virtual screens: from protests under the Trump Tower in New York, to intimate and private films of a girlfriend, to drone footage of the old mining architecture of the Ruhr. The impossibility of escaping the images and the haunting ambisonic sound track, enhance the immersive experience, that at times, becomes alienating. The spectator’s point of view doesn’t however remain private, as the rest of the visitors can follow his gaze in real time on a monitor. The work is the surprising result of a period of crisis for the artist. A digital stream of consciousness that well reflects the bombardment of images and video content to which we are exposed everyday.
Patrick Alan Banfield received a B.A. in Pedagogy and Media Studies from the University of Karlsruhe in 2009. From 2010 he studied Media Arts in the class of Isaac Julien at HfG Karlsruhe and fine arts in the class of Willem de Rooij at Städelschule HfbK Frankfurt am Main, where he graduated in 2015. After that he studied with Omer Fast from 2016-2018 at HfG Karlsruhe. In his works he researches forms of masculinity embedding his filmic production in spatial installations. His filmic works have been already presented in several group shows and film festivals, such as the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (2012); De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2013); Galerie 1m3, Lausanne (2013); Loop Videoart Festival, Barcelona (2013); Festival de Video en Bourgogne (2013); Berlin Biennale (2014); Kulter A-Lab, Amsterdam (2015); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (2015); Museum für neue Kunst, Freiburg (2018); Mewo-Kunsthalle Memmingen (2018).