So this is the centre of the world from where the distance is the same in all directions

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  So this is the centre of the world from where the distance is the same in all directions | 2015

Our contemporary world lives by the present and tends to choose easily accessible solutions. However, the need to project oneself into the future as one of the basic premises of „progress“ has not vanished. Even though in the course of life most of us find ourselves outside the trajectories of our own plans. Somebody suceeds in fullfiling his ambitions in a different field, somebody fails, but this does not necessarily mean a place at the social bottom. This work helps us to remember the usually muted difference between what we wanted or still want to do and what we actually do (not only in the sense of making a living). This is based on about twenty volunteers who speak in the gallery about the way they got into the situation they are in at present and to what extent reality differs from their plans and ambitions. The result of this activity is a film recording of a performative situation which is repeatedly shown in the place where it was made. Because all the people speak at the same time and the camera and microphone, floating freely in space, always capture only bits and pieces of the monologues, the result is a sort of kaleidoscope of narratives, which is not meant to describe the fate of individual people but to activate the conscience of each viewer and to review their own desires and intentions. Are their desires still relevant? Can you imagine fulfilling them even perhaps with the help of your immediate surrounding area?