Live video practice gives the viewer the opportunity to see and experience an imaginary space and time, thus tracing and constructing a story through seduction and identification. When producing a physical image that is being manifested in the social space and real time, the visual and sound image is created as a result of personal and collective symbolisation. Let us then step into a live video picture, and embark on a voyage to face technical and optical devices, and other spectators. The image is ephemeral, it is simultaneously presenting itself and disappearing. The space is fragmented, the points of view diverse. Our perception is fragmented, multiplied and intermitted. The structure is open and the form untangled, there is a lot of ambiguity and ambivalence, the unconscious is at work and the artwork hints at topics outside of the aesthetic field, e.g. society or the position of an individual or the artist. This constellation addresses the viewers directly, it includes and activates them. Where this complexity is eliminated, the idea is manifested clearer, but it becomes too scarce. BB
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