Pierre Huyghe Le Château de Turing, 2006
Specifications
Colour video, 16/9, 17 minutes
Stereo sound
Directed by par Natacha Caron, Xavier Douroux, Franck Gautherot in collaboration with Pierre Huyghe
Camera (steadycam) by The Nguyen
Edition by Mario Batistel
Special effects by Fabien Turruziani
Post-production by Première Heure (Patrice Haddad, Louis Arcelin, Zoé Joli, Benjamin Laborde)
Sound by Lionel Catelan
DVD O-Zone
IMPORT #4
Production
Edition of 500 copies
Produced and published by IMPORT (mfc-michèle didier & les Presses du Réel) in 2006
©2006 Pierre Huyghe and IMPORT (mfc-michèle didier & les Presses du Réel)
NB: All rights reserved. No part of this edition may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission of the artist and the publisher.
This video document recreates a walkthrough the exhibition Le Château de Turing by Pierre Huyghe on the occasion of the 49th Venice Biennial.
Three rooms, three entrance for a total of nine differents possible itineraries.
To not impose a specific walkpath the film is edited in the way that all rooms follow one other randomly and endlessly.
The camera movements are fluid and panoramic. They reflect an objective concern for information. The three spaces are not closed universes. They communicate with each other through a multitude of calculated, demonstrative and sometimes indicative parameters. The DVD brings back to life a past exhibition period whose memory was the sole guarantor of our collective memory.
What characterizes the Turing machine is first of all its universality: the borders between the cognitive modes of man, animal and machine are abolished. Among all the possible Turing machines, the one Pierre Huyghe presents contains three methods of data processing: human, alive and artificial.
Here, the spectator is himself a calculating being, leading his investigation under the retroactive control of the Hal computer which, in addition, directs computing processes that culminate in generating and exposing visual art works.
And yet, almost secretly, Pierre Huyghe is pursuing classical values with Le Château de Turing: isn't the scandal that this intervention is beautiful, and that the eye is ultimately filled with wonder?
Published following the exhibition Pierre Huyghe - Le Château de Turing, 49th Venice Biennale, June 10 - November 4, 2001.