Named after the classic Chris Marker video Sans Soliel, Condon’s Without Sun is a edited compilation of “found performances” of individuals on a psychedelic substance. Images and sounds from the various clips collected from the internet overlap and combine into one seamless experience, creating a 15 minute pseudo-narrative focused on the exterior surface of their "projection of self" into visionary worlds. Condon’s global players in Without Sun have recorded themselves looking at the camera this time. Taking up where Marker left off, these (inner) travelogues question memory, perception, and the effects of current participatory media and technology on culture.

Utilizing the video as a choreography document and script, the performance of Without Sun is 15 min recreation of the video with one actor and one dancer.

Without Sun, 2008 (video)
by Brody Condon
15 min

Without Sun, 2009 (performance)
by Brody Condon
15 min

Actor: Russell Edge
Dancer: Alexia Lewis
Camera: Dan Martinico
Thanks to Machine Project, Los Angeles