Wednesday, April 29, 2020 anno covidi, I was supposed to give a talk over lunch at the end of my two months involvement with Residency Unlimited. This, of course, took place in another universe.
Instead, I flew back home to Belgium on March 15 for obvious reasons. Luckily, the two weeks in New York were incredibly productive. Back in my studio, I had trouble processing all the information I managed to gather during my short stay, and everything that’s connected to the current virus crisis. A weird overlap between my body of work, my research, and this Situation has occurred. I lost sight of the Universe of Former Normality, in which I was still in New York.
Last week, RU’s Rachel Gugelberger reached out to me, asking if I would be willing to give the talk anyway, through means of a recording of some sort. I suddenly snapped out of artistic bewilderment – I’ve been starting projects since I returned, but nothing at this point really materialized in a satisfactory way – and made this 20 minute hyperspace powerpoint video work, explaining my research, using fragments and frays of halfly finalized ideas.
This is by far the longest film I ever made in the shortest time available. There’s a lot more I wanted to address, but for now, this is it.
Thanks for watching.
– Alexandra Crouwers
Alexandra Crouwers, Mistakes: the artist talk, 2020. HD, colour/sound, 20:20. Courtesy the artist.
See also:
www.theappealoftheunreal.com
www.solastalgia.theappealoftheunreal.com
www.com-pli-cit.com
