2020-2021. Live performance for the Web, specifically YouTube and social media. Sound, colour, 10:00:00.
Presented specifically on YouTube and other social media Web-spaces, this work presents audiences with what seems to be the artist saying 'words', ambiguously his and some anonymous other. Audiences are left to wonder if he (the artist) is listening to someone else's words. As a performance he strangely echoes the words of others in ways that seem his own as well. Questions of information and mis-information, truth and power, are suggested around figures of influencer, demagogue, manipulator.
The video projected onto the artist’s face has been pre-recorded. Using a projector, the pre-recorded video is cast and overlaid directly onto 'his' face. Audiences view the artist as he appears twice: as if he is himself (me) and also other (him). As if someone else, human-in-human. Him-me.
Performed live for On Edge: Materials and Bodies Sympoesis, 28 Oct. 2020, and Ephemera 3, Performance Køkkenet, 21 March 2021.