Contemporary Art Society screening Laure Prouvost’s ‘Monolog’ for 72 hours

As the final instalment of it’s CAS at Home series of screenings, the Contemporary Art Society is showing Laure Prouvost’s 2009 film Monolog for 72 from midday on 1 July. Donated to the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester by the CAS in 2012, this provocative and eloquent film is a witty and direct challenge to the notion of the artist’s identity and institutional regulations imposed upon the viewing of art and the behaviour of a supposedly captive audience. Prouvost parodies her own role as a director and the role of the audience as she directs attention to the screening space itself. The film addresses the fallibility of language as a means of communication splicing together seemingly random snippets of footage, text and voiceover in a surreal stream of personal associations.

Watch via CAS’s website here.