Stan Douglas
Kunsthalle Zurich
Stan Douglas’ video Hors-champs (Out of bounds, 1992) was among the most remarkable of the works exhibited at the last Documenta. It is the recording of a live concert by the jazz musicians George Lewis, Douglas Ewart, Kent Carter, and Oliver Johnson. Douglas initiated the concert and was one of the cameramen. Two videos, which were projected onto the front and back of a screen, were produced from the raw footage. On one side there was a film in the style of a TV program, while on the other there was the counter-narrative produced by the outtakes.
Though Douglas works with video, he does not