FOR A GLOBAL VISION

1  Look at the photo of the video installation Impressions des îles Chatham¹, presented for the first time in 1986, at the Musée Cantini in Marseille.

2   Imagine that a similar well would be "dug" in the antipode, New Zealand : already an endless, bottomless chasm through the earth.

3   Place video cameras, hide them inside the walls of this well and link it all with simultaneous satellite transmissions² : the french viewer leaning over the well sees and converses with the New-Zealander and reciprocaly.

4   Situate its surface on the ground level and transform this narrow well into a several meters wide abyss : we are already out of the museum's range, touching a wider public.

5   Now develop this connection to the general audience and imagine a show (classical music, Rock and Roll, contemporary music, theater, dance etc...) where half the setting on stage is real and the other half is virtual and broadcasted (always with the same, live satellite link) on a giant 1/1 scale screen.

6   Now look at this situation: two actors (or more, or musicians etc...) are able to look at each other, talk to each other, touch each other, in short communicate although being in reality geographically extremely distant.

7   You now see with a global vision.

Gérard Giachi, 1993
"Global project"

NOTES

Note 1 : From New-Zealand Islands to their antipode : Marseille.
Photo : "Impressions from Chatham Islands" Gérard Giachi 1986/1989.
Note 2 : The only time when two satellites are necessary to link two geographic points.