ONE NIGHT STAND (PARIS)

EXHIBITION

LAXART, Los Angeles
November 11 – December 31, 2006




01. Lisa Tan, One Night Stand, Invitation Image




02. Lisa Tan, One Night Stand (Paris), (installation view), 2006, single-channel video installation




03. Lisa Tan, One Night Stand (Paris), (installation view), 2006, single-channel video installation




04. Lisa Tan, One Night Stand (Paris), (installation view), 2006, single-channel video installation



DESCRIPTION

One Night Stand (Paris) is a psuedo-performative work formally resolved as a film. It contends with a range of ongoing artistic issues for me including aesthetics, the history of representation, desire, and displacement.   For this piece, I traveled to Paris for one night, taking only a notebook and a change of clothes.   I documented the experience through writing.   The writing, which forms a representation of my "one night stand" with this iconic city, was translated into a subtitled black film.   The subtitles are paced to follow the experience of watching any foreign film.