Consciousness causes collapse

2008

Video (8 min)

Idealized and created as a video assemblage piece, this video incorporates and subverts the painting "Charles I, King of England, from Three Angles" of Van Dick. It also incorporates and manipulates the writings of Max Stirner. Poetically rebuilding those transgressions through repetitive voices in echoes and continuous identity alterations, it creates a self-conscious-identity that is directly associated to the idea of (no) God or “Godbeing”
Worked out with those three conflicting complementary superimposed images, this project tries to present the idea of branching identities. This switching of identities creates a decomposition, fragmentation and dissociation of the three layers of consciousness: Oppressing, Oppressed and Free (completely related to the idea of God-State-Nation-Boss-Patriarch, etc).
As in the “Garden of Forking Paths” of Borges , those stages echo in parallel alternations where the Unique(Max Stirner) possibility is presented and counter presented.The collapse of those identities would be latent in the free will of each one (as in the cat paradox of Schrodinger): The choice of a God would mean death whether a choice of the self; life.