Technical Description and Concept

VIDEO

Title: Are we also what we are not? – Eve and Eve

Technique: HD digital video, colour, sound. Single channel.

Ratio: 16:9

Length: 6 min 45 sec

Format: MP4

Year: 2022

Exhibition: world premiere

TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT

The video is projected onto a screen, wall, or monitor.

Size: adaptable to the availability of the space/screen/monitor. Best hight of image: ca. 190 cm.

Ambient: dark

Equipment: 1 video projector with audio system. 1 disposal to fix the projector.

The proposal can be modulated in order to the space and the technical possibilities.

CONCEPT

The pleasure of construct and erase. Side by side, empathy and its opposite exist throughout the creation and the destruction of what was created.

The video exposes and conceals a lying woman while she is tearing up letters, she has written once.

The image is continuously created and cancelled. It is like a painting, a trial and error, a human joke, the wonderful feeling, and the terrible consciousness to be able to build and to destroy.

“Eve and Eve” is the first chapter of “We are also what we are not”, which treats the capability of apathy and empathy in connection to collective and personal history and actual experiences. Both are driving forces of pleasure and satisfaction and presents the diverse facets and contradictions of the concept of identity under the influence of individual experience over time in connection with current events and our capacity for empathy and its opposite.

A narrative on creation and perception of reality and how the parts act together, where “the other” is a fundamental component of the individual. The affirmation, that we are also what we are not, leads to the question what happens, when empathy meets survival.

We all are part of the whole and the actions of the individual have an impact on the community. Our capacity for empathy, as well as that for apathy is a basic requirement for life. But the decision to empathize with what we are not or what does not noticeably affect us depends on individual perception and we also could feel apathy.

The provocative demand of empathy for a life in harmony is asked of a world that feels threatened and wants to survive. The individual perception of one's own needs and the lives of others, which are also determined by current events, influence individual and collective action. Personal and social positioning is required. What will we do?