D'aileurs, c'est toujours les autres qui meurent
(Anyway, it's always other people that die)

The Hunington Gallery in Austin, TX

This installation was originally created in 1998 and recently reconstructed for at the Siber Gallery at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD.  At a glance the work is an homage to Marcel Duchamp, but actually functions as an interactive sculpture. The work represents reflection and hindsight, a “looking back” on an event, a history, and reflection on oneself.  Pasts that cannot be changed.  For the audience to fully participate in the work, they are required to look at themselves.  The back of the viewer’s head is seen in the monitor resulting in their becoming an unknown participant.  The videotape loop continuously records over the previous loop making past recordings impossible to be viewed a second time. The monitor becomes a mediator of the future and the past.

Along with the bicycle wheel, the 3/4" videocorder and the monitor - a video servelance camera is connected to the recorder capturing the movement of the wheel. The bicycle wheel is connect to the 3/4" videocorder by way of a tape loop.

The title is taken from the epitath on Duchamp's gravestone.