Object #0
2021—2022
Visual reasoning in psychoanalytic discourse on the topic of attraction to life and attraction to death.
The search for the Lacanian object, the object-the cause of desire. The Lacanian mirror stage as the basis of human subjectivation. The attraction to death as a result of something lost and the inability to make up for the loss. The play of two opposite principles that set the individual rhythm of being of an individual subject.
Reasoning about the presence and absence of an object. The illusion of perception and the collision with the Real.
The project consists of four works with mirror optics and recombinant video.
The video creation technique is a recombinant selection of frames from various films uploaded into a single database created by contemporary artists Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lutgert, which is open to graduates of their author's course on video art at the Salzburg Academy of Fine Arts (Austria).
The search for the Lacanian object, the object-the cause of desire. The Lacanian mirror stage as the basis of human subjectivation. The attraction to death as a result of something lost and the inability to make up for the loss. The play of two opposite principles that set the individual rhythm of being of an individual subject.
Reasoning about the presence and absence of an object. The illusion of perception and the collision with the Real.
The project consists of four works with mirror optics and recombinant video.
The video creation technique is a recombinant selection of frames from various films uploaded into a single database created by contemporary artists Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lutgert, which is open to graduates of their author's course on video art at the Salzburg Academy of Fine Arts (Austria).
RECOMBINANT VIDEO
The video "Object 0_5"
The video was created by randomly selecting frames from a movie database and then sorting them by color, style, and theme in the future.
In the video, a visual search is conducted for a Lacanian object, which is represented by a red circle. The frame editing involves turning on a black screen each time a new frame appears, creating the illusion of pulsation and the appearance and disappearance of the object.
The Lacanian object has an abstract shape and is located against a background of real space. It represents the perfect form of desire and the red color symbolizes seduction. According to Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, this object is a libidinally-loaded object that is located behind the subject's fantasies. The phantasm serves to cover up the object, as meeting it directly can be unbearable.
In the video, a visual search is conducted for a Lacanian object, which is represented by a red circle. The frame editing involves turning on a black screen each time a new frame appears, creating the illusion of pulsation and the appearance and disappearance of the object.
The Lacanian object has an abstract shape and is located against a background of real space. It represents the perfect form of desire and the red color symbolizes seduction. According to Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, this object is a libidinally-loaded object that is located behind the subject's fantasies. The phantasm serves to cover up the object, as meeting it directly can be unbearable.
A list of used films in this video
Die Kinder von Godard und Coca-Cola (A. S. Ambulanzen) 1998
You’re Lying! (Vilgot Sjöman) 1969
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg) 1971
Temptress Moon (Kaige Chen) 1996
Suspiria (Dario Argento) 1977
The Sun Also Rises (Wen Jiang) 2007
The Spirit of the Times (Johan van der Keuken) 1968
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller) 2010
Pilots in Pajamas (Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann) 1968
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais) 1956
You’re Lying! (Vilgot Sjöman) 1969
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg) 1971
Temptress Moon (Kaige Chen) 1996
Suspiria (Dario Argento) 1977
The Sun Also Rises (Wen Jiang) 2007
The Spirit of the Times (Johan van der Keuken) 1968
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller) 2010
Pilots in Pajamas (Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann) 1968
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais) 1956
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) 1996
Match Point (Woody Allen) 2005
The Man Who Sleeps (Georges Perec, Bernard Queysanne) 1974
Love's a Bitch (Alejandro G. Iñárritu) 2000
In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 1978
Homeland (S02E07) The Clearing (Lesli Linka Glatter) 2012
Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (S01E10) Die stolzen Jahre - 1967-1969 (Edgar Reitz) 1984
Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan) 2010
Match Point (Woody Allen) 2005
The Man Who Sleeps (Georges Perec, Bernard Queysanne) 1974
Love's a Bitch (Alejandro G. Iñárritu) 2000
In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 1978
Homeland (S02E07) The Clearing (Lesli Linka Glatter) 2012
Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (S01E10) Die stolzen Jahre - 1967-1969 (Edgar Reitz) 1984
Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan) 2010
Exhibition (Joanna Hogg) 2013
Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant) 1989
Death by Hanging (Nagisa Ôshima) 1968
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Peter Medak) 1972
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard) 1963
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa) 2006
Aurora (Cristi Puiu) 2010
Agnes Varda: From Here to There (Agnès Varda) 2011
Agatha and the Limitless Readings (Marguerite Duras) 1981
Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant) 1989
Death by Hanging (Nagisa Ôshima) 1968
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Peter Medak) 1972
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard) 1963
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa) 2006
Aurora (Cristi Puiu) 2010
Agnes Varda: From Here to There (Agnès Varda) 2011
Agatha and the Limitless Readings (Marguerite Duras) 1981