Mary's Video Room

                     
Mary's Video Room is a site-specific video installation and performance.
Mary is 24 years old and lives on the top floor of an industrial building in Central London. Her room is full of monitors that play her videos. The videos are a footage-collage from her daily life and surveillance from other people's windows as she was filming while living in the flat. For one night she invited some unknown people to her room and created a situation in which she was involved.Jean Paul Sartre's 'Nausea' was the starting point for this installation. An existential approach to the urban way of living.

Kitch in terms of low-tech aesthetics and set,the popular and consumer culture of positive repetition is celebrated here.

Video- documentation from the video-installation-(camera Valmar Kass):

Mary's Video Channels-the video :

Interview to the 'Accidental TV' for Mary's Video Room- May 2010 

Concept:Maria Konstantines Araka (a.k.a Markoira)
Video-Installation, Performance: Maria Konstantines Araka
Video Courtesy:M.KAraka
Interview: Valmar Kass (head of the Accidental TV,London)
Camera: Valmar kass
London,2010®

                                                                






                                                                                 NAM JUNE PAIK
Courtesy: the artist

                                                                            Mary's TV

video-installation view at Battersea Arts Center,London, May 2010
Courtesy: the artist
video documentation: Valmar Kass

the set up of an installation

Mary's TVis  a video installation by Maria Konstantines Araka @BAC (Battersea Arts Center)

Public Production: May 2010

People would enter a living room like space and sit on a sofa .Next to them there is a small table with a remote control and the whole space has a very cosy-homie  atmosphere.
The TV is on and is playing on loop the video of Mary's TV.
Although the control is there,on the table,they aren't allowed to change the channels.
The sound is coming from speakers ,being set up behind the sofa and they were extracts from recorded tele-marketing channels.
A dodgy atmosphere,like the one you can find in many houses nowadays.TV is always on,and everything in the daily life must be done due to TV rules.
TV breakfast
TV lunch
TV dinner
TV love
      TV RULES..and Mary's TV wants to rule your brains.

Channel One

Mary's Video Channels:

Mary's Video channels is a series of video art pieces about what we are given on TV .

They actually work as independent video channels screened on large scale surfaces.

Courtesy: the artist

Mary's TV


Courtesy: the artist , London 2010
www.mariakonstantinesaraka.com