Loop the Loop
June 4th, 2009 by Trends
Video art lovers hit the streets of Barcelona last week for this year’s LOOP festival. The seventh incarnation of the festival took over the whole city with videos screened in over 100 venues. Dozens of galleries from all over the world exhibited and a few of them were willing to stray away from the norm. The most notably voyeuristic of these was New York Gallery Virgil de Voldere who brought Brody Condon’s self playing video games. Brody modified a first person shooter game and exchanged the violent animations with dreamy, otherworldly and surreal scenes. The scantly clad characters look out at the viewer waiting to be told what to do but no one ever helps them.
