Lecture (English)

June 2, 2010, 7 p.m.

On occasion of the exhibition "Behind the Fourth Wall. Fictitious Lives - Lived Fictions" the artist Judy Radul speaks about her work "World Rehearsal Court" (2009).

World Rehearsal Court shows the reenactment, based on court records, of trials before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The script is a collage of material from several trials, the names of all participants have been replaced by generic designations. What is in the foreground here are not specific cases, but rather a critical examination of the structures of the court of law as an institution. In her multiperspective video installation Judy Radul brings to our awareness the manipulability of images and the uncertainty of perception: Shot from a variety of angles, the footage reveals that it was recorded in a gymnasium, disrupting the illusion of an authentic courtroom and raising the issue of the politics of the mise-en-scène and the recording, of the choice of perspective.

 
Judy Radul was born in 1962 in Lillooet, British Columbia and lives in Vancouver. Her works and performances have been shown amongst others at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. World Rehearsal Court was first exhibited at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver in 2009.