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Details
- Date
- 2002
- Media categories
- Time-based art , Installation
- Materials used
- digital tape (betacam) shown as single channel digital video, colour, sound
- Edition
- AP II
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:06:00 min; aspect ratio: 4:3
- Signature & date
Signed on DVD master, black fibre-tipped pen "Saskia Olde Wolbers". Not dated.
Signed l.l. certificate of authenticity, black pen "Saskia Olde Wolbers". Not dated.- Credit
- John Kaldor Family Collection
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- L2010.152
- Copyright
- © Saskia Olde Wolbers. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London
- Artist information
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Saskia Olde Wolbers
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Placebo is a fictional story based on the syndrome Pseudoligica Phantastica, where invented experiences are presented as reality.
The video is set within the intensive care unit of a hospital with the off-screen narrative told by the mistress of a supposedly married man who claims he is a surgeon. Regaining consciousness after a car crash that her now comatose lover orchestrated, she begins to unravel his intricate web of deceit.
Images of empty hospital interiors, a drip, effervescent pills and various molecular structures, melt away into liquid globules. Placebo is filmed in real time in miniature sets covered in paint and submerged in water.
A soundtrack of electronic samples plays in tune with the melting droplets.
From: http://www.saskiaoldewolbers.com/works/placebo-video-stills-synopsis/Voice over: Sukie Smith
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Natasha Bullock, John Kaldor family collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Saskia Olde Wolbers', pg.296-99, Sydney, 2011, 296, 297-98 (colour illus.).
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Stijn Huijts, Gianni Jetzer and Patricia Ellis, Saskia Olde Wolbers: now that part of me has become fiction, 2003, (colour illus.).
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