In the Present
Phyllis Baldino In the Present color/sound
in the Present
1996
color/sound
two-channel video installation: 5:46 minutes per channel

According to William James, the “present” is about 3 to 12 seconds long; everything else is constructed memory. Each segment of In the Present is within this time frame. What you see or what you don’t see, depends on what you remember. (50 scenarios total)


Philip J. Hilts, “Memory’s Ghost”, 1995, p.16.

In the Present
Installation video documentation (excerpt)

"Zones of Disturbance”, steirischer herbst ‘97, Graz, Austria.


(curator: Silvia Eiblmayr)