warriors
Screenshot video documentation at various locations

warriors is a series of works in progress featuring video game character modifications engaged in introspection, preparation, search and defense maneuvers. The figures perform choreographed movements as well as scripted gameplay actions in slow-motion and in strange sequences. At times they address the viewer telepathically. Text and speech is selected and altered from online "ASMR" YouTube videos, which aim to stimulate tingling body sensations and calm audience of followers in utilizing hypnotic methods. warrior characters encounter visible or described challenging surrounding conditions such as being submerged suggest current social or ecological situations which need to be overcome or survived. Thus the external need for resistance or combat. Conflicting emotions, defiance and uncertainty, fear and contemplation outline very a human presence instantiated in a mixture of technological and physical space.

Certain Things May Happen, screenshot video excerpt of work in progress, 2020

 

Its OK, screenshot video excerpt of augmented reality, 2018, Grounds For Sculpture, NJ

 

Angsty Pool, screenshot video of augmented reality, Grounds for Sculpture, collaboation with Michael Rees, 2018

 

Pool Scratch, screenshot video of augmented reality, instantiated at the Guggenheim Museum, 2018, featured through the moble exhibition: ACTIVATAR

 

Waters Rising, screenshot video of augmented reality, 2018

 
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