Marcin Dudek’s Bienal Riposte employs a “first–person” camera positions. Each shot consists of a rubber ball being thrown off-camera, and then bouncing off the complex geometrics of various national pavilions at the Venice Biennale. The video was shot in the “off season” for the Biennale so the pavilions are eerily deserted and overrun by weeds, like a modernist ghost town. The subject of Bienal Riposte can be read as spectral and ghost-like in nature. Each shot is presented in quick succession, cutting in immediately before the ball hits the wall. Who (or what) is throwing the ball remains unseen neither absents nor present.

Bienal Riposte
2006
mini DV
3:15 min
Venice