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Aernout Mik<br />
Scapegoats, 2006<br />
Aernout Mik, born 1962 in Groningen (NL), is one of the most highly regarded international video artists<br />
of his generation. He develops absurd scenes of latent disaster scenarios. Painstakingly constructed, they are<br />
shown as loops. Mik toys with reality, misleading his viewers. His videos are based on collective ideas, for<br />
example of how policemen treat immigrants; but he deliberately refrains from doing any research into what<br />
they actually do. Using the “human material” – lay actors and actresses – like a sculptor, he creates “living<br />
installations”. In Scapegoats we can see soldiers guarding civilians in a vast hall. But the situation changes<br />
– for example when machine-gun-toting children begin to drive adults ahead of them – and it soon becomes<br />
unclear who guards whom. The fact that Mik does not use language makes the situation even more mysterious.<br />
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