Standing Ovation is the graduation work by the young Czech artist Jakub Moravek at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. This video installation allows visitors to control the plot through their movements in the space, to change sides and become the ones viewed. A formally dressed group on the screen reacts to the visitor by applauding with increasing enthusiasm (controlled through floor sensors) as the person approaches the projection.
The projection reacts promptly and individually to each action-triggering movement of the visitor in the space. Everyone, democratically and without exception, is cheered regardless of achievement and met with thunderous applause.
1st Biennial of the National Gallery Prague, 2005

Jakub Moravek, born 1971 in Pribram, Czech Republic, lives and works in Munich
www.jakub-moravek.de