[IKI WO TOMERU/Apnea 2] installation version, 2007
written and directed by Philippe Chatelain & Virginie Lavey

Located in a store of the tokyo trendy streets, the camera follows a seller in her everyday routine until her own reflections in the window display start to behave autonomously.

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exhibition and festival 2007: "French video collection" Yokohama-Japan,
......................................FID Marseille-France


Work time simulation, installation-network-performance, 2000

From a one day event to a full length exhibition, three performers are working on a network dealing with a looped-information. The environment made of a combination of parameters extracted from world of sport, the world of work, the consumerism, and information highway becomes the place where the body tensions due to immobility are revealed. Inside the network, the sending over and over of information creates a
movement out of time and leave the 3 performers in weightlessness.

exhibition 2002: Tokyo French Institute
2000: Spiral Hall, Aoyama-Tokyo, 4th-12th March 2000

Happy people, little star, interactive video installation, 2001
3 video monitors, 2 video -projections, interface device, inflatable chair,1 pc

Travel and leisure catalogs sell "happiness" by using the myth of the coupleas an icon. "Happy people, little star" plays with this representation and analyse the evolution of leisure environments towards artificiality. Different video images taken in leisure environment are confronted: artificial sea and beach in Japan,Venice Beach L.A. where music covers the sound of the sea, a golf contest above the Ocean with new rules.

exhibition 2002: "Cinematic Voices" Gallery Winds, Kichijoji, Tokyo
2001 : Softopial Hall, Ogaki, february 2001

Random violin,interactive video installation for a hypermarket, 1997

random violin is a visual and sound installation based on the infrastructure of hypermarkets, consumer behavior and home video appliance. The installation runs on the TV wall of an audiovisual corner - 20 Tv monitors connected to 20 videoplayers. As in John Cage's piece “33 1/3”, participants/customers are invited to pick a videotape by chance among 200 videotapes, to play it and take part in an experimental video experience. The 200 hundred videotapes are in fact 200 speed variations of a single video sequence showing someone playing the note A. At the musical level, random violin is an accumulation of microtones and produce sound masses that literally enter in vibration with the architecture of the hypermarket.
Finally, random violin operates a shift of social status: consumers become active participant by composing a seven hours music each day and the hypermarket is turned into an experimental sound and image laboratory.

exhibition 1998: Geant Casino, Rennes-Fr., for "Homo ZapiensZapiens", 4th-16th of May 1998
1997: Geant Casino, Villefranche sur Saone-Fr., "Zig-Zag" exhibition 4th-10th of July 1997






Anémie (anemia), video installation for 2 video monitors and 2 synchro players, 1995

To the sound piece of Phill Niblock, based on very slow micro-tones progression, are associated Tv images where the body is surrounded by a medical presence -external and internal: on the left screen, a woman is giving birth surrounded by doctors and nurses, on the right screen, a bodybuilder is showing up his oversized muscles .

exhibition 1997: Fleche d'or, Paris-Fr. 1996: New Visions (Glasgow-Scotland)