Desperate friends send an email asking for urgent financial help after falling victim to a terrible attack while on holiday in Spain or Greece!
In the video installation “Terrible Vacation” in the message salon, Roy Menachem Markovich takes on the criminal internet phenomenon of the “Nigerian Sting”, the fake messages that land in our inboxes from friendly but hacked addresses. In the “Terrible Vacation” internet café, dramatic film cries for help from an unknown source flicker across flat screens with the intention of stealing our money!
The events described in the fake emails become the template for the film stories. Some of the actors appearing in the video were actually victims whose email addresses had been hacked. In “Terrible Vacation”, they act out their “own” story, just as the script in the fake message demands.
On Thursday, 10 October, Roy Menachem Markovich will present videos by artist friends from Tel Aviv. The compilation “We Hate Our Village” promises an intense, critical and unusual look by artists at their city and homeland, which is in an explosive state of flux and caught between history and the future, normality and a state of emergency, war and peace.
“We Hate Our Village”, with videos by Yaron Attar, Hadas Kedar, Daniel Kiczales, Roy Menachem Markovich, Eran Nave, Chaya Ruckin, Tamir Zadok.
Roy Menachem Markovich was a guest at message salon for the first time in 2012 with “we shall overdraft”, a comprehensive exhibition. The artist lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The exhibition is supported by videocompany.ch