putting yourself out there | 2009 | Webcam->DV | 2:05
A voyeuristic intervention into the lives of chat addicted users. Music by Nick Krgovich.
Critical Discourse
Enns’ putting yourself out there uses footage he took from video chat web sites streamed, unknowingly from the people he was talking to, using intimate situations to highlight the ironic breakdown of physical communication. – Stephanie Hough, The EYE-KEA Project Catalogue (Ireland: Basement Project Space, 2010).
Enns’ putting yourself out there (2009) montages pixellated snippets of webcam footage of online chatroom users against a melancholy soundtrack. The subjects simply look into the middle distance, silently and patiently waiting for a response, any response. – Chris Clarke “The EYE-KEA Project” Enclave Review 01 (Summer 2010).
Enns’ offering, putting yourself out there (2009) is also voyeuristic in the online sphere, showing random chatroom addicts on a pixelated small screen—twitching, scoping eyes and fingers in mouths. The accompanying song wistfully intones, “I wrote the book on how to be lonely.” Do they know they’re being observed? – Bernadette Ashley, “The Fruits of Invention.” RealTime Arts Magazine 93 (October-November 2009).
Screenings/Exhibitions
January 11, 2017. …and from the North, Cave Cinematic, Audio & Visual Experimentation, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Curated by Aaron Zeghers.
June 18, 2016. Digital Networks, The Front, New Orleans, Louisiana.
March 10 – 16, 2016. Iranian Short Film Association, Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds, Tehran, Iran. Organized by Open City Cinema.
December 18, 2015. Heirs of Warhol (as part of Warhol Unlimited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris), Cinéma Le Grand Action, Paris, France. Curated by Théo Deliyanis and organized by Collectif Jeune Cinéma.
May 13, 2015. WHITEBOX, Souvenirs From Earth International Video Art Festival, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Curated by Barbara Matas and Rieko Whitfield.
June 16 – August 19, 2013. Private versus Public Selves, Vetlanda Museum, Vetlanda, Sweden. Organized by art:screen.
October 2011. Serial Box Project, University of Missouri Art Department, Columbia, Missouri.
May 10, 2011. Art in the Public Sphere, Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden. Organized by art:screen.
April 9, 2011. Wonder Art Video Festival, Brussels, Belgium. Organized by 68 Septante asbl.
March 19, 2011. Magmart International Videoart Festival, Naples, Italy. Organized by art:screen.
March 14 & 25, 2011. International Festival of Films on Art, Montréal, Québec.
February 18 – 20, 2011. SUPERMARKET Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden. Organized by art:screen.
January 30, 2011. Göteborg International Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden Organized by art:screen.
December 12, 2010. Alternative Film/Video 2010, Academic Film Centre in Students’ City Cultural Centre, Novi Beograd, Serbia.
November 14, 2010. Digital (In)approriations: Reimagining The Archive, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Jaimie Baron, Andrew Hall, and Madeleine Gallagher.
October 9 – 16, 2010. putting yourself out there. Antimatter [Media Art], Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, British Columbia.
October 13, 2010. Périscope, Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium. Organized by 68 Septante asbl.
October 3, 2010. International Videoart Festival, Örebro Läns Museum, Örebro, Sweden. Organized by art:screen.
September 16, 2010. The Cutting: Short Videos on Sacrificial Masculinity, VIVO, Vancouver, British Columbia. Curated by Frederick Cummings and Brian Gotro.
June 1, 2010. crosstalk video art festival, Merlin, Budapest, Hungary.
May 7, 2010. Zero Film Festival, The Hexagon Space, Baltimore, Maryland.
April 6 – 25, 2010. the EYE-KEA project, Basement Project Space, Cork City, Ireland.
December 2 – 18, 2009. Window Shopping, PixelPops, BolteLang Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland. Curated by Aoife Rosenmeyer.
December 12, 2009. Invisible Dog Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
December 3, 2009. Zero Film Festival, Standard Rooftop, Los Angeles, California.
November 20, 2009. 22nd Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Martigues, France.
September 11 – October 4, 2009. Truth, Pispala Centre of Contemporary Art (Hirvitalo), Tampere, Finland. Curated by Markus Petz.
September 12, 2009. Reality Bites, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, Australia.
July 31 – August 21, 2009. Intervention, Screengrab, Emerge Media Scape, Townsville, Australia.
August 1, 2009. YOVEO International Video Festival, New York City, New York VIII.