Three Small Fires
Ice Cream
In Ice Cream, the three members of Turner Prize* simultaneously performed three webcam shows; visitors to the site chose whomever they would like to perform for them. Each performer was holding an ice cream cone, licking the ice cream only when a visitor clicked a button marked “lick”. Depending on the number of visitors and the frequency with which they instruct the artists to “lick," each performance was at times a nauseatingly overindulgent durational piece, an innuendo-laden cam-girl/boy show, and a sad, sticky, drippy scene.
The work highlights the tendency for sophisticated technologies to be used for moderately entertaining or mundane ends. "Interactivity" is reduced to button-clicking, with each click producing a fairly predictable and unspectacular effect. Despite these parodic constraints, the resulting performance was drastically altered through the degree of viewer interaction.
The work highlights the tendency for sophisticated technologies to be used for moderately entertaining or mundane ends. "Interactivity" is reduced to button-clicking, with each click producing a fairly predictable and unspectacular effect. Despite these parodic constraints, the resulting performance was drastically altered through the degree of viewer interaction.
Babybird