VideoStar is an ironic self-portrait made for an exhibition at Stenerenmuseet in Oslo. The video is a home-video interview and exposes myself by the kitchen table attacking the internal art society. I express my frustration with curators, art-critics and my physical health or aging looks in relation to my career. The video is shoot with a fisheye lens and the voice is pitched down.
Quotes:
-while Tracey Emin is exposing herself, Jannicke Låker likes to expose others...
Excerpt from review by Jan Kokkin, Morgenbladet September 2003
Jannicke Låker’s videos are manipulative, repugnant, malice and immense tasteless. Låker creates a distorted picture of the everyday life and the evil of gloominess, at the same time as she‘s investigating the outlying lands of the burlesque comedy. She is making a travesty of those who are unsuccessful, lonely and dumb. In her collection of characters there are no heroes, only antiheroes, and in the bottom there’s a desire of exploiting herself as much as she exploit others.
Excerpt from a text by Tone Hansen 2002
VideoStar / 12' / Norwegian language / 720x 576 PAL / Jannicke Låker©2003
