Like & Destroy

Tag:

Multidisciplinary

Date:

Dec 20, 2022

Description:

Like and Destroy was a collaborative event assignment during my second year at the Willem de Kooning Academy. We were tasked with creating an event/installation that communicated something about our society of the spectacle. My group, Trespassers Will Be Forgiven, wanted to address and visualize the effects of social media on our collective psyche. For this project we built a set out of hundreds of images we collected on social media which our performance was filmed on. The subject wears a custom jacket which she shovels colored pebbles that visualize interaction. Over time, the weight of the stones drags her down. This performance was recorded and projected over the installation. Viewers could put on the jacket themselves and take pictures using the background.
Like and Destroy was a collaborative event assignment during my second year at the Willem de Kooning Academy. We were tasked with creating an event/installation that communicated something about our society of the spectacle. My group, Trespassers Will Be Forgiven, wanted to address and visualize the effects of social media on our collective psyche. For this project we built a set out of hundreds of images we collected on social media which our performance was filmed on. The subject wears a custom jacket which she shovels colored pebbles that visualize interaction. Over time, the weight of the stones drags her down. This performance was recorded and projected over the installation. Viewers could put on the jacket themselves and take pictures using the background.

Collaborators:

Ava van de Zander, Elvira Shumakova, Emme Dykehaus