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.