4-channel video installation, total running time 29.30 min
Installation view from Motive Gallery, Amsterdam 2005
Picture also showing the related series of 18 video stills called “Taklagsdockan / The Roof Team’s Doll” (2003)
Sometime around the mid-90′s three friends and I found a dead body floating in the river that runs through our hometown. During the years that passed since we made our gruesome discovery, my memories gradually faded, only to be replaced by a fragmented version that I could no longer distinguish from my friends’ recollections. Tellingly, my strongest visual memory is of something that I’m convinced I never saw. This revelation was the starting point for a project resulting in a 4-channel video installation called “Esprit de Corps” (which means “team-work”). For the presentation these four darkly humorous mini documentaries were shown simultaneously on four monitors without synchronization. The monitors were attached at eye-level to a tree-trunk that stretched from floor to ceiling. This activated the viewer who was able to circle the subject in order to shape his or her own version of what actually happened. The interviews that make up “Esprit de Corps” serve as a monument to the elusive character of memory.
Featured in this project are Mats Haga, Nico Knudsen, Magnus Monfeldt and Tommy Eriksson
Four stills from “Esprit de Corps” (2003), 4-channel video installation, total running time 29.30 min