Το έργο ΕΚΤΑΣΗ / ΕΚΤΟΠΛΑΣΗ ΙΙ είναι ένα κολάζ βίντεο με αφήγηση διάρκειας 3'21.
Το υλικό αντλείται από την τηλεόραση, ένα μακρινό ταξίδι και ένα μαγαζί μάγείας σε κεντρική λεωφορο της πόλης. Ακούγονται δυο ψηφιακές φωνές που εκπαιδεύονται σε τεχνικές πειθούς. |
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ECTASIS-ECTOPLASIS II is video collage consisting of five moving images and two digital voices.
"Ectasis" refers to contemporary world expansions and "ectoplasis" to meta-physics of ability, success, progress. The voices guide us to a future of possibility and effectiveness while we are watching scenes of an astrologer's shop in Athens, Akherousia lake and China's ghost cities. |
οταν ταξιδεψα στην κινα ακουσα ενα οντιομπουκ αυτοπραγματωσης ενιωσα αποτυχημένη αλλά θα μπορούσα να το ανατρέψω αυτό και πια το ήξερα ναι
*on my flight to china I listened to a self-help audiobook. I felt such a looser but I could turn things round, this I knew from them on for sure.
In this fictional dialogue a non-human leadership agent is being trained by a machine on how to be more infuencive. The trick would be to casually relate though audience's memory knots. It all has to sound subconsciously familiar. Everything is connected. The agent sets examples: The train trip I witnessed China's ghost cities, the ancient lake of the underworld I' ve frequently visited, the sign for founding lost ones on my neighbourhood, a tv show I watched about Melina Merkouri's triumph, my urban history professor from school, tommorow's weather report. This is a dream of how both sides reach on top. That's what that book said afterall.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Last September I traveled to the East.// This trip changed my life.//This is not a way of saying things.//This is not one of those tricks to make you listen.//There is no hidden catch,//No hoaxing,//No impressionisms.//I assure you, I am not talking about a simple shift.//I am talking about major personal development.//This very sound is the proof.///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Ineffective people believe they have no choice. They spend their time reacting to or worrying about conditions over which they have little or no control.//Effective people instead focus their time and energy on things they can control, on those they have Influence upon.//They work on stuff they can do something about: health, children, problems at work.//While ineffective people spend their energy on concerning about things over which they have little or no control: the national debt, terrorism, the weather.////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////That was fine, George.// We will keep that.///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Surely that was enough? Am I not forgetting something?///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Well, you know it would all be more convincing if you added things persons relate to.// Overall, we want them to feel connected.//Try sounding as would a memory, a feeling or a speculation://Say:"This scenery is a place I have visited at least six times, probably more.// And Yesterday it was playing on my tv! //"this meant a lot"// or ... "I wanted to watch a tribute show to an old politician last night but I felt too sleepy”////////////////////////////////////////////////////////But, Does any of this have to do with dying?/////////////////////////////////////////////////////Not at all.///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Ok then.//I would not have wanted that/ ////////////////////////////////////////////
*on my flight to china I listened to a self-help audiobook. I felt such a looser but I could turn things round, this I knew from them on for sure.
In this fictional dialogue a non-human leadership agent is being trained by a machine on how to be more infuencive. The trick would be to casually relate though audience's memory knots. It all has to sound subconsciously familiar. Everything is connected. The agent sets examples: The train trip I witnessed China's ghost cities, the ancient lake of the underworld I' ve frequently visited, the sign for founding lost ones on my neighbourhood, a tv show I watched about Melina Merkouri's triumph, my urban history professor from school, tommorow's weather report. This is a dream of how both sides reach on top. That's what that book said afterall.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Last September I traveled to the East.// This trip changed my life.//This is not a way of saying things.//This is not one of those tricks to make you listen.//There is no hidden catch,//No hoaxing,//No impressionisms.//I assure you, I am not talking about a simple shift.//I am talking about major personal development.//This very sound is the proof.///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Ineffective people believe they have no choice. They spend their time reacting to or worrying about conditions over which they have little or no control.//Effective people instead focus their time and energy on things they can control, on those they have Influence upon.//They work on stuff they can do something about: health, children, problems at work.//While ineffective people spend their energy on concerning about things over which they have little or no control: the national debt, terrorism, the weather.////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////That was fine, George.// We will keep that.///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Surely that was enough? Am I not forgetting something?///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Well, you know it would all be more convincing if you added things persons relate to.// Overall, we want them to feel connected.//Try sounding as would a memory, a feeling or a speculation://Say:"This scenery is a place I have visited at least six times, probably more.// And Yesterday it was playing on my tv! //"this meant a lot"// or ... "I wanted to watch a tribute show to an old politician last night but I felt too sleepy”////////////////////////////////////////////////////////But, Does any of this have to do with dying?/////////////////////////////////////////////////////Not at all.///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Ok then.//I would not have wanted that/ ////////////////////////////////////////////