Cameraless videos
performance / video installation
The Vasa Museum is one of the required sites on a tourist itinerary of Stockholm. It bills itself as the repository of "the world's only fully-restored 17th century ship" and "one of the foremost tourist sights in the world." The museum itself is built entirely around the form of the ship and consists of several tiers of balconies that divide the ship into thirds and move you around its exterior. The primary visitor's ritual at the Vasa Museum is to walk three circles around the Vasa and choose various views to photograph. This is done in the way most photography is conducted since the LCD replaced the viewfinder, by looking at an unrecorded video scan and choosing one moment from that live video to record. I was interested in using this site to explore the bodily performance of digital photography and the unrecorded video practice that accompanies it. I took the visitors themselves as my subjects.
These videos document a series of cameraless videos I created of visitors to the Vasa Museum - moving around them and looking at them as I would if I had a camera. The resultant videos were installed as alternative programming for surveillance monitors at museum security desks.