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Tour (2008), still from video , DVD, 53 min., sound, projector

 

  
 
The point of departure for the video installation Tour is an audio-visual examination of the aesthetics of power structures.
Tour is a real-time videotaping from a riverboat, of the banks of the river Spree in Berlin, Germany. The visual footage presents Berlin's history through its architectural development along the waterway via a continuous dolly shot. The soundtrack is comprised of a female voice apparently taking on the role of a tourist guide — sometimes anchoring the narrative on specific buildings and sites, and other times making witty jokes and light-hearted observations meant to entertain the tourists. But the narration goes beyond a mirror image of the original tour guide's script. The act of translation is put into play as a tool — not in its conventional function to translate from one language to another in order to produce coherent meaning — but rather to disperse and deconstruct the original text's structure and reveal its implication of universal truth. Through the use of repetition and intonation, the audio narration continually points to itself as it takes the form of a rehearsal or performance. Randomness, non-equivalence and coincidence are put into play to engage the viewer's relationship to packaged travel tours that broadcast and disseminate knowledge meant to promote location as a consumable product.