TRANSLOCAL: Camp in my TENT, 1995 to 2001
by Jenny Marketou

Translocal: Camp in my Tent is a migrant project which consists of two parts : one is the installation conceived and presented as a campsite and the second is a public intervention with my tent which takes place as an enactement in the different cities where the installation is presented.

Translocal :Camp in my Tent + CU See ME teleconference,1998
Newhouse Center for Contemporary, Snug Harbour, Staten Island, New York

The ready made green Tent the main component of the installation is pitched on a green artificial grass carpet and visitors are invited to bring a pic nic and camp for the day. This elegantly constructed shelter invites participants to bring their own camping accouterments and challenges them to adapt this private activity to the public observable space of the gallery in an artificially beautiful tourist extravaganza! Or in some cases they are able to engage in telematic virtual discussions with remote participants around the world via CU See Me technologies.

The tent is fully equipped with custom made sleeping bags and pillows dedicated to give the visitor a leisurely experience according to the printed brochure. Inside the tent are two or three video monitors -as witnesses - one is linked to a surveillance camera located inside the museum, and which is set up to monitor continuously the activity of the campers inside the tent. The other two monitors feature a series of pre recorded. videos which are looped excerpts, documentation from the series of public performances with my tent around the world .The sound track is composed by a sampling from hovering helicopters, city traffic, and a range of human noises etc.

Snugharbor Invitation