Irreparable Monotony

I want to invite you into the most boring of worlds, containing the most mundane specimens, and colorless creatures. I am not trying to inform, nor do I intend to show you the dramatic, I am offering you brief fragments of the mundane, banal, representing objects that fill our surroundings, in hopes of triggering other recollections.
Detect your surroundings, looking not with intention, becoming aloof.
Apply yourself now, take your time, observe the street with some concern for system.
Note down the time, the date, the place, the weather.
Continue slowly, almost stupidly. Force yourself to write down the most obvious, common, colorless.
Force yourself to write down what is of no interest.
Try to describe the street, what it is made of, what it is used for, how it works.
Detect the rhythm, putting the fragments together, connecting, recalling, finding the climatic within the mundane.
Carry on until the scene becomes improbable, until you have the impression, if for just the briefest of moments, that this has become a strange town, or better still, what is happening or not happening is no longer decipherable, what the representational form of a town, a building, pavement, a street, is no longer a familiarity.

Irreparable Monotony was an installation that invited viewers to observe the day to day, banal moments of life. Numerous videos were recorded on a camera which was hidden in the eyeglasses of the artist.

During the installation, videos were projected on a geodesic dome which was mounted on a wall. A motion sensor was placed on the inside of the dome, and as videos played, they would interrupt each other until the motion sensor was blocked by participants. This resulted in a random chaotic switching of situations and actions. Viewers were invited to enter the dome, and as they paused and watched, they also blocked the motion sensor, allowing participates to view complete scenes or glimpses of others reality.

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