In collaboration with Csaba Kalotás & Ádám Prokaj
concept, installation: E. Laki | photo: Cs. Kalotás
video, screening: Á. Prokaj, Cs. Kalotás | music: Cs. Kalotás
Almost everyone must have experienced the awkward situation, when one
shall attend an event which is unpleasant, odd but compulsory. That event
can be a lunch with the family or with collagues from work. The reason to
bring this project alive is based on those pesky situations.
The project’s genre is video installation. We place four plates with its tablewares on a 120x80 cm size lunch table. In the plates we project four videos masked out in circle shape, a projector is hanged above the table. The videos depict four characters in different situations, in a pool of water, shot from above. One of them is drowning, the other is floating, the third one is swimming in circles. There’s only a plain surface of water in the fourth plate, representing the character’s total disinterest. The videos are projected in loops during the time of the exhibition.
The sound of the whole occasion (the sound of tablewares, slurping, etc.) are coming from speakers attached invisibly under the table.
