Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are a husband and wife Art Team. They create (among other things) intricate miniature sets that recreate real moments in their lives - all rigged with cameras on bendy stalks, which are fed in to a computer which cuts between the cameras and displays their output on a large screen. The works are about how we create stories from moments in our lives. Here's the Hexpert Hopinion:
"The miniature locations are information of a kind, illogical and unconvincing though it is. Already toylike and peopled by dolls, the sets also mix scales, so that different parts may be quite different sizes. They are designed not to create a unity of place but to make sense in front of the cameras, which is quite another thing: shot by one camera, a plane may appear as a wall; shot by another, from a different angle, it may turn into a floor. The tabletops, too, being constructed without outer walls, lack the dioramalike backdrops of real stage sets, which are planned to block all trace of anything but illusion. The result is that the cameras may catch not only the scene they are placed to record but also the view beyond it, offstage or in this case off the table. When they feed their live images to the screen, you may see other viewers up there, or yourself, in the background that passes for sky. And yet, obviously synthetic as it is—it might be an animated version of a Laurie Simmons photograph—some kind of film does play. If, in the earlier works, the McCoys were breaking narrative down into its basic elements, here they seem to show the opposite process: the creation of a story, with a structure and a progression in time, out of static arrangements of physical facts. The point, I think, is not some kind of retour a' l’ordre, but a cheerful game with the arbitrariness of the stories we tell to make sense of our lives."
That comes from an essay by David Fraenkel.
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