19th- 27th April 08: The Time of Distance
How many times must one watch a film in order to enter the life of it?
Can we inhabit two worlds at the same time?
How can we enter the world of fiction?
– An improvisatory research/performance project involving experimentation in entering the life of fiction during the Time of Distance Exhibition, Helsinki and Berlin 18 - 27 April.
TEST SUBJECT
Sanni Priha – a film and performance artist
CONCEPT
Over a period of nine days a research laboratory will be set up to investigate the possibilities to transfer our body/mind into a world of fiction film. The artist has developed an extensive film viewing method in which one is subjected to a film repeatedly for a significant amount of time. In this particular (pseudo-)scientific research, the test subject is exposed to the film Mulholland Drive by David Lynch. Is it possible for one to exists in two places, the “real” and the fictive one at the same time? With a conscious mind, can we split it, the mind, as well as our body into two, in order to reach another world?