As an artist working with photography and moving images I have a fascination in the Russian film avant-garde of the 20s and in Eisenstein’s theory of montage. It is a world of images, rhythm and pace and a way of thinking were images and their juxtaposition are the base for creating new meaning, and in that way, also creating a foundation for new knowledge.
The philosopher Peter Carruthers has argued that there is a type of inner, explicitly linguistic thinking that allows us to bring our own thoughts into conscious awareness. We may be able to think without language, but language lets us know that we are thinking. Art is very much language and art is the visualization of conscious awareness. It is ‘knowledge production’, exploring life, society, feelings and emotions from all point of views and angles. Bridging history and histories by juxtaposing images with thoughts of conscious awareness.
In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.
One channel video, 07.20 min video loop, HD, B/W, no sound.
In Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’, Alice finds herself in a race with the Red Queen. After running for a while she becomes confused as to why she’s remaining in the same spot.“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.” “A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
“In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation” is a one channel video, 07.20 min, based on a quote by Guy Debord from his book The Society of the Spectacle. It pictures the struggle between man vs. nature and how Lewis Carroll’s description of the kingdom of the Red Queen is pointing to the condition of own society and the state of our present time.
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