Indigestion, by New York artists Diller + Scofidio consists
of a performance between a man and a woman of ambiguous
relation performed across a dining room table. The performance
is enacted through a video image of a table top projected
onto a flat horizontal surface of the approximate size and
height of a dining room table. The characters are introduced
through an audio recording of their voices and images of
their hands on the surface of the table. Throughout their
5-minute video "performance", viewers are able to navigate
across a digitally generated image of the table top through
the use of an interactive computer interface. By selecting
choice and the mobility of their points of view, new facets
of the scene and fleeting, subtle images of the action become
apparent. Offering alternate representations of the performance,
Indigestion critiques stereotypes of gendered behaviour
as they are exhibited in the "contractual" space of the
installation, that is, the unwritten social contract or
rules of the game.
