What if I was a rat?
Realtimefilm at nonTVTVstation, Stockholm 2002.
Still From the realtime film
“What if I was a rat?”, 2002 . One of the eight camera angles from the appartement box where the rats were living.
The realtime film “What if I
was a rat?” is a performance that was broadcasted directly
from the studio of nonTVTVstation night and day from 7 okt. - 10 nov. 2002.
I built a human home for rats, but in the scale of the rats. In this home
four rats where living during five weeks. I dokumented there lives in the
appartement with eight cameras peaking in from different angels. The appartement
box was placed at the “nonTVTVstation” during the five weeks.
The scenario was directly broadcasted from there and sent to a streamed
videopicture on the internet and to different artmuseums in Scandinavia,
among others Kiasma (Helsinki) and ModernaMuséet (Stockholm). The
streamed realtime film was continously shifting between the eight camera
angles from the rats “appartement”.
Review about What if I was a rat? by Mar Garett at www.furtherfield.org
At Moderna Muséet in Stockholm, oktober 2002. The rats lives where broadcasted directly from the nonTVTVstation to this projection.
The studio of nonTVTVstation (Stockholm).
The “rat appartement”, with the rats, was dokumented by eight cameras from eight different angles.
No cruelty to animals here.