Artist Laure Prouvost and exhibition curator Victoria Sung discuss Prouvost’s work and the development of They Are Waiting for You, her new immersive installation/exhibition.
Convoluted Time: Reflections on Laura Prouvost’s They Are Waiting for You
A voice, a woman’s voice, probably the voice of Laure Prouvost, is asking, text is instructing on the screen. Remember that this image means that. An image of a mallet pounding a stake means no. An image of an iguana means yes. So begins filmmaker and writer Kevin Obsatz's reflection on Provoust's performance, They Are Waiting for You. Offering a rich description of her piece, Obsatz explores how the artist and her collaborators muddle the lines between live and mediated, present performance and forgotten memories.
I CAN SEE A VOICE: The Making of They Are Waiting for You
They Are Waiting For You "muddies the gap between the experience of cinema and theater." Victoria Brooks, EMPAC's Curator of Time-Based Visual Art, explores the creative process involved in a recent production residency for Laure Prouvost's new performance work, commissioned by the Walker Art Center.
Mixing sculpture and found objects with sound and moving images, Laure Prouvost's immersive installation They Are Waiting for You upends the traditional relationship between artwork and viewer, addressing us directly in ways that might feel unfamiliar, even uncomfortable. The work, writes Victoria Sung, demands our complete focus, and threatens to push us out of the room. She also engages us indirectly, in subtler, subconscious ways, ultimately implicating the viewer in the making of the piece.
