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[cross-section] work by Kai Lossgott |
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videoalpha. 2007.If you repeatedly forgot every person you knew, and searched for ciphers that might remain, you might in your surrender discover the approach of some imaginary person, half sensed, half-glimpsed by intuition. |
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a motion image poem for surveillance camera monitorSecret language of the bourgeoisie. 2004.A meditation on polite distance and the emotional and spiritual repression of (overwhelmingly 'white') middle-class life behind the ornate security fencing of the suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. |
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video installationArmed and Ready. 2004.Symbols culled from the colonial alphabet of security fences subversively invade a young white man's body without his awareness. Multiplying on his pale skin like a Victorian virus, they invoke the story of his middle-class illusions of power. |
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video installationAfter Purity. 2003.A deconstruction of Hitchcock's shower scene in "Psycho", drawing on white South African fears of black crime in post-apartheid South Africa, targeting the deep mythical notion of cleansing. |
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photo-documentaryDangerously Safe. 2003.These documentary photographs compare the earliest grave markers in the Primrose Hill cemetary with the security fencing in the suburb which today surrounds it. Only the road around the cemetery divides the land containing death from the land which excludes it. |
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performanceHouse. 2001.Through the metaphors of high risk acrobatic dance theatre and pyromania, the western obsession with cleaning and conquering is interrogated in a ruined house used as a toilet by local homeless people. |
