A Series of Boring Videos
2011 - 2014 | video , installation , featured
Watched: the first in the series of boring videos (2011) - Installation, 1080p high-definition video, with audio, 3 minutes, playback initiated by viewer.
Watching: the second in the series of boring videos (2012) - 1080p high-definition video with audio, 20 minutes, looping.
Watch: the third in the series of boring videos (2014) - Installation, 1080p high‐definition video with audio, 490 hours (14 hours per day for 35 days).
Watched: the first in the series of boring videos (2011) - Installation at the McIntosh gallery for The Things You Know but Cannot Explain exhibition.
Watching: the second in the series of boring videos (2012) - Installation at the McIntosh gallery for The Things You Know but Cannot Explain exhibition.
Watch: the third in the series of boring videos (2014) - Installation at the McIntosh gallery for The Things You Know but Cannot Explain exhibition.
A Series of Boring Videos consists of three videos, Watched (2011), Watching (2012) and Watch (2014), where each video pertains to a specific idiom of boredom: “a watched pot never boils”, “watching paint dry” and “to watch grass grow”, respectively. Beyond a simple tongue-in-cheek literalization of these adages, the videos are meant to encourage the viewer to engage in a close and considered look at what, in actual fact, are very complex physical, chemical, biological and psychological phenomena.





