Janet, Joan, Jackson, Joyce and the Robots is a multi-screen video installation. It tells the story of an artist's life through the evolution of her artistic styles, and the films are shown in her reconstructed bedroom-studio. The floor, walls, canvases, bed and furniture are all covered in white drips. 

The installation Janet, Joan, Jackson, Joyce and the Robots  questions the authenticity of styles in the history of images. It also questions the processes of appropriation and diversion in the field of fragmented art. What is style? What does it mean to be original, and how can one exist as an artist in an era of imitation, tracking and censorship by generative AI? How can one escape detection algorithms? How can we escape the digitisation of our lives and rediscover corporeality in our use of matter? 

Credits

• Direction Gwenola Wagon
• Production Le Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains
• Production Coordinator Pauline Thyss
• Musical composition Sig Valax
• Images Gwenola Wagon
• Texts Pierre Cassou-Noguès
• Editing Gwenola Wagon with Cécile Bicler
• Stage Manager Marie-Bénédicte Cazeneuve
• Post production Le Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains
• CPER CornelIA (2021-2027) Co-construction responsable et durable d’une Intelligence Artificielle
• With Léonie Pons