Vanitas is a set of video works produced within the format and medium of live stream. The sessions are recorded in real time and the original scene is marked with a time-date stamp courtesy of Youtube. The video is not stretched or pieced together using any software, though they do contain the inherent skips, noise, and recording artifacts which remain embedded as a result of the process itself.
Of course there are contradictions inherent in filming a scene with no action – an element of irony contained in the process of treating still life as video, but In many ways it’s similar to the pursuit of the painters that originally endeavored with meticulous technique to render a dead scene into an illusionistic life-like thing.
A canned archive of the live streams in playlist format provides the container for the presentation of the work. The start, stop, and timestamped duration of each scene or session becomes a part of the work. Quiet and fragile, they are produced in an unstable yet seemingly indelible medium, and will persist or be deleted in accordance with the nature of the technology.
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