Frédéric DUMOND
Telefiction #5
Art vidéo | dv | color | 3'40'' | Francia | 2005

Téléfiction#5 is a fiction and a video essay realized with soap operas. It’s all about using these series as a raw working material, to isolate some fragments that permit to make tip over the selected parts onto another narrative and conceptual level, in order to constitute an absolutely different universe, whilst keeping its origin tracks.

Frederic Dumond is born in 1967. He is writer, plastic artist, and performer. He works narration, the sense of the word as elementary principle of the thinking, on different scales of presence and perception. He structures them in proximity with the theories “hard” sciences disorder, because the form determination is blurry (in terms of border) – because dependant on every levels of that moment (scale) of perception. In his most recent texts, he evokes, by successive approaches, the human being and the living. He realizes his videos from images broadcasted on TV, destructuring and restructuring the fictions series that invade the small screen. He creates his video installations with elements embezzled from the real (fragments of working documents of societies or companies and/or capitation of moments of the company life).(II/break). He works his sound pieces from radio broadcasted sound pieces, writing a text with multiple as a puzzle. While a residence in Barcelona, he published texts written in the same time in Catalan language and in French and gives bilingual performances.