i_u
i_u uses an approach to refrence points such as the delivery of media through a remote broadcast system. The work deals with the facts of information being filtered and passed through context-related setups of biased reports. Those setups include the matter of a human individual reporting, editing or specific local circumstances and cultures in which the information is firts received and then passed on.
The first appearence of the image on the screen proposes an innocence to the viewer through a horizontal balanced landscape and the assumption, through the presentation on a common tv-set, that a continous and linear stream of information will be presented to the viewer. She or he also assumes that the video will run without his influence, since the medium of delivery is a ordinary TV screen from which he is used to be passively bombarded. The state of the image changes however, only when the viewer approaches the screen. The image will gradually change and the volume of the sound as well as the pitch will change or rather rise until the viewer changes his position. A metaphorical climax in the video and sound depends on the influence of the viewer and his interaction to the information presented to him. The work leaves no direct comment through it’s content yet hints on the issue of a distorted informational society and their common views on thruth in broadcast and press, questioning the assumptions of ones own reality as one may judge it as an absolute truth. Furthermore, it reflects the pure helplessness in which one finds himself being aware of his own ignorance and difficulties to form opinions. Being a throughout seemingly pointless attempt to gather valuable information from the communicational means provided, the work is conscious of his own ignorance and points this out to the viewer who is detached from global concurrent processes of cultural and political developments on the basis of contextually molded opinions being mistaken for realistic, rational ones.
“EXPOSITIONv.1″/TBA Studio Exhibition 2004,
“heavy pussyfooting” /Lower Foyer gallery 2004