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Watching Suicide in Slow-motion

Intercative video installation
Monitor, table, PC, camcorder, tripod. Made with Touchdesigner, Blender
2024

This is a conceptual art piece revolving around the ethics of watching and the perception of one's body within digital representations of space. The idea for the work came from a conversation with a classmate, who asked me about the political atmosphere in my home country. My answer was "It's like watching suicide in slow-motion". I wanted to explore the notions of activeness and helplessness in the act of watching horrible events unfold, knowing what is going to happen and not being able to prevent it. I was particularly interested in the way technology mediates this experience, allowing us to see remote events but not to intervene.