PATHND
19 Nov 2022
Media installation
Co-author Evgeny Karelin
Exhibited at the Media Arts Festival.
(past actions that have not done --> turn to --> past actions that have been done)
The installation consists of three parts: the first is a button that flashes in the basic state and starts the video when pressed. The video on the screen is the second part of the project. When the button is not pressed, the looped beginning of the video is played on the screen, after pressing, the recorded story gameplay begins, collected and recorded on Unity.
Begining loop-video on the screen when the button in not activated.
At the end of the video, the lyrical hero from the video reaches the object next to which the viewer is standing. After that, the roller shutters rise at the object and a plate of marmalade bears appears in front of the viewer. After a few minutes, the shutters are lowered and everything starts over.The PATHND installation or performance in three parts was started last year. It was a combination of two ideas proposed for the Cyland laboratory, as a competitive work. Over the course of the year, he changed more and more, coming to a form that now looks and reflects on itself.
The main line of reflection in the installation is the intersection of anxiety and fear. It is known that anxiety comes out of the spectrum of fear. But I wanted to start more from the emotional coloring of these words.
Fear here has become a natural, animal feeling, natural and useful, for which you feel respect, and anxiety is a sticky and constantly present nearby organism. He is waiting for you behind every alley, hoping that you will take some action so that the network of probabilities and deviations «from the planned» will grow even more. Anxiety is the horseman of chaos and unpredictability. But it is out of chaos that everything in this world, the whole universe, is born. This is her order.
What will you choose, desire or action?
