Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Pierre Huyghe



Pierre Huyghe is french media,film and video artist


 Pierre like to take fragment from literature , event, animation and contextualize it into a video, sculpture or film. The interesting thing about Pierre is that he is always challenging narrative and the illusion that media can create. Pierre doesn't used linear narrative, Pierre gives example of artist Douglas Capland about how Disney is too efficient and seamless. To Douglas Disney film do not give the viewer the chance to explore or wonder, it control the viewer and makes them watch the event at a distance. 

Pierre on the other hand wants the viewer to be submerged and explore this imaginary landscape or world. Pierre use jump cut and vibrating time to create a sense of immediate in the viewer. In other word Pierre used fast cuts and plays with time to catch the viewer attention at that moment! Pierre also created a object and artifact out of imaginary experience and from books. Pierre made a weather room from all the weather mentioned in Edgar Allan Poe and compiled a weather log book.

 Pierre weather room has authentic climate , rain,snow,fog. Pierre is trying to literally submerge the viewer into his imagery world. Pierre does this by using rhythm,music and light to play on the viewers sense. Pierre gives the viewer a chance to create there own narrative, each weather room pierre made is a different scene. Pierre gives the viewer a chance to start from beginning to end or from the reverse. Pierre also make a atmosphere that encourage the viewer to explore there imagination and put there selves in the scene. What Pierre is doing is making a movie or scene without film or video. Pierre is giving the viewer the tools and letting there imagination do the rest. 

Pierre definitely went the extra mile when creating and sinking up the music, video and weather. To create the actual feeling of cold,wet, and fog. To me Pierre is taking the viewer back to when they where a child and didn't have to rationalized everything. Kids just let there imagination and there surrounding take them into a fantasy world where they are free to explore. That is exactly one of the thing that is so appealing about animation and art. That is can create a world and give the viewer a chance to explore or see them selves in it. Basically, to me I Pierre main goal in his art is to make something that make the viewer have complete imaginary freedom to do what ever they want!!!.

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