Bill Faecke Videos
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Bill creates images and environments that challenge perception, often creating works that harness the evocative potential of performance art and the absurd. Visual slights of hand, the provocative doubling of meanings and images and refined aesthetic unite a dialogue of seductive and pixel-layered videos. It's a small but cutting-edge examination of the painterly qualities to be found in the stripped-down levels of a ubiquitous technology. It’s almost like watching Bill become a part of his own artist-made props combined with pixellists like Seurat dots.
He states “I am investigating the escapist properties of absurdity. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot was my first major introduction (about seven years ago) to absurdity’s power to bypass the demands of reality. His eternally fruitless search for meaning reflects the paradoxical nature of countless human philosophies, religions, social institutions, etc. I have embraced my interpretation of Beckett’s approach not as a condemnation of these approaches to everyday life, but as a means to deal with their incongruities by finding hope in a lack of meaning. As for my multi-disciplinary approach, my sculptural constructions are props for my video work. I am presenting the intersection of a series of ongoing ruminations that continually amuse, frustrate, and inspire me.”