ABOUT
_“Virtual reality is in itself a rather miserable idea: that of imitating reality, of re-producing its experience in an artificial medium. The reality of the virtual, on the other hand stands for the reality of the virtual as such, for its real effects and consequences”
Slavoj Zizek
During the shooting of David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago in a Madrid suburb in 1964, a crowd of Spanish statists had to sing the” Internationale” in a scene involving mass demonstration. The movie team was astonished to discover that they all knew the song and were singing in with such a passion that the Francoist police intervened, thinking that they were dealing with a real political manifestation. Even more, when, late in the evening ( the scene was placed in the darkness), people living in the nearby houses heard the echoes of the song, they opened up bottles and started to dance in the street, wrongly presuming that Franco had died and the socialist had taken power.
Using a nuanced approach to the notion of ‘becoming without being’, my practice attempts to trace a contour of an encounter between these two incompatible fields and work within the echo of a traumatic impact.It is dedicated to magic moments of illusion (which in a way are not simply illusory) and the hopes thwarted by the “return” to normal reality.
Slavoj Zizek
During the shooting of David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago in a Madrid suburb in 1964, a crowd of Spanish statists had to sing the” Internationale” in a scene involving mass demonstration. The movie team was astonished to discover that they all knew the song and were singing in with such a passion that the Francoist police intervened, thinking that they were dealing with a real political manifestation. Even more, when, late in the evening ( the scene was placed in the darkness), people living in the nearby houses heard the echoes of the song, they opened up bottles and started to dance in the street, wrongly presuming that Franco had died and the socialist had taken power.
Using a nuanced approach to the notion of ‘becoming without being’, my practice attempts to trace a contour of an encounter between these two incompatible fields and work within the echo of a traumatic impact.It is dedicated to magic moments of illusion (which in a way are not simply illusory) and the hopes thwarted by the “return” to normal reality.
