SCRIPTING NERVOUSNESS
2021
Type:
2-channel video
Lenght:
4’35”
Featured in:
The Autoethnographic Turn in Design
edited Louise Schouwenberg and
Michael Kaethler
The video responds to the psychometric approaches of the body. It attempts to expose the madness of data-driven self-improvement and the way in which these create feelings of anxiety and nervousness.
To produce and simulate the emotions that arise, I construct different absurd scenes by decontextualising everyday objects: a desktop screen depicts a dead fish that is slowly dragged by a car to through a field of dry flowers, revealing the sentence ‘continuous self-improvement’ underneath; a non-functional code highlights the arbitrary convention of software language.
To produce and simulate the emotions that arise, I construct different absurd scenes by decontextualising everyday objects: a desktop screen depicts a dead fish that is slowly dragged by a car to through a field of dry flowers, revealing the sentence ‘continuous self-improvement’ underneath; a non-functional code highlights the arbitrary convention of software language.
