Auditions

3 channel HD video installation, 2-channel sound, endless duration, 2013

In a forest, 6 young people wander around, but don’t seem to take notice of one another.
The camera observes the natural phenomena of the wind blowing, the light changing as well as the people’s movements, but it doesn’t seem to pay them any special attention.
At some point they will start speaking, and little by little we notice that they are saying the same text, almost automatically. Maybe they are sharing a collective dream? maybe they are a part of a cult? As we pay attention to the text, we hear what seems to be an identity crisis, but put as what seems to be a cliché. Where does this cliché come from, from films we have seen, books we have read? Maybe many of us have been there, in the mental space they seem to inhabit.

 

auditions (installation view)