Slowly Learning to Survive the Desire to Simplify, 2006

mixed-media installation, ‘Slowly Learning to Survive the Desire to Simplify – A Symposium on Critical Documents’, IASPIS, Stockholm

This installation was designed to be an environment in which the symposium could take place. Responding to the central theme – a critique of mainstream media’s representation of reality – it functioned like a television studio. As a result, participants were cast in the role of television presenters and studio audience respectively. Fiction and reality were blurred, as the space not only included genuine technicians and camera equipment to document the event, but also life-size cut-outs of cameras, monitors and technicians represented in a flat cartoon style, as well as a printed backdrop showing an audience of television journalists.

The symposium was curated by The Production Unit, in collaboration with IASPIS and NIFCA.