Laure Prouvost in conversation with Kathy Noble

<p>This episode was recorded live at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, September 5, 2023 during a retrospective screening of selected works by Laure Prouvost. The pre-screening introduction by Amal Issa and Laure Prouvost is followed by a conversation between the artist and writer-curator Kathy Noble.</p> <p>The screening portion of the program featured a selection works spanning the last decade: <em>OWT</em>: (2007, 3 minutes), <em>Finger Point Green</em> (2010, 3 minutes), <em>They Parlaient Idéale</em> (29 minutes, 2019), <em>Every Sunday, Grandma</em> (2022, 7 minutes), <em>OMA JE (You, My, Omma, Mama</em>, <em>Shadow Does</em>, and<em> A Walking Story) </em>(2023, 22 minutes).</p> <p>Language—in its broadest sense—permeates the video, sound, installation, and performance work of Laure Prouvost. Known for her immersive and mixed-media installations that weave in film in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, Prouvost’s work addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation. Playing with language as a tool for the imagination, Prouvost is interested in confounding linear narratives and expected associations among words, images, and meaning. She combines existing and imagined personal memories with artistic and literary references to create complex works that muddy the distinction between fiction and reality. At once seductive and jarring, her approach to filmmaking employs layered storytelling, quick edits, montage, and wordplay, and is composed of a rich, tactile assortment of images, sounds, and spoken and written phrases.</p>