Identities

Video artists have used their installations for deepening the examinations of the self. Video installations were designed to elaborate on the individuals who viewed the images themselves. The camera for instance was a tool created to conduct real-time images the self. Installations had the ability to do this with the addition of adding an alternately designed environment, thus executing an encompassing view. It also grants the viewers a sense of being included into the work itself, in a literal viewpoint.

Adrian Piper's What It's Like, What It Is #3 invites people into the work with screen projections of racial stereotypes that audinace members interact with as the projected individuals challenge their presumptions and prejudices. Out of the Corner consists of seventeen monitors and photographs, doing so involves the audinace in once again interacting with ethnic stereotypes whom address the audience with trivial questions.

Moving into theatrical performances once more, Lovers by Teiji Furuhashi has naked bodies perform aerobic activities while interacting with the audience. Voices murmur as bodies appear from the darkness as they confront the viewer, only to fall back into the void, with the shadow of AIDS hovering over the installation.