Stilllives

From Rhizome Artbase
Dave Greber
2011
Description

Stilllives is a single-channel looped video in which spaghetti, flowers, a cat, and other random objects fall from the sky onto a table cloth, bouncing, breaking, and spilling. When they come to a rest, the arrangement is obscured by another table cloth that falls from the sky, followed by more objects.

Rhizome staff
2021

Stilllives is a hypnotic, single-channel HD video loop which exists in a world between high and low art. A colored table cloth falls from the sky onto an unseen table, followed by objects which bounce and arrange themselves in a precarious narrative formation. When the objects come to rest, the scene is obscured by another table cloth and the cycle continues.

Dave Greber
19 July 2011

single-channel video loop
2:00 min
Limited Edition of 10 DVDs
2011
"It's a phenomenally addictive video - something akin to the cross between a pop video, a video game, a magician's act and a Dutch still life. Totally hilarious while being gluttonous, perverse and twisted"
--Reggie Rodrigue, The Daily Visionary Post

Dave Greber
19 July 2011

Stilllives is a visual morse code of objects and images. The objects behave like sequences of words comprising sentences punctuated by the drop of each new table cloth. It's a subliminal language that communicates on an subliminal level with rhythm and symbols creating colorful, musical speech from an origin that is amusing, positive, and empowering.

Dave Greber
19 July 2011
Metadata
Variant History
outside link
2011
Dave Greber
static files
19 July 2011
cloning
Rhizome staff