Accidental Monuments,1998


Installation photos: Jenny Marketou

"Accidental Monuments" is conceived as an interactive networked environment and a website which explores emotional survival, and exposes the layers of emotional and aesthetic resonance in our relationships to place both physical and virtual. Within individual, isolated iconic realities related to my collective memory and the conscious of myself as not quite belonging,living in the borders which means that one threads the fine line between positioning and repositioning. What is the difference between being somewhere and thinking of being in that same place? If all human relations are regulated by proximity and distance,what is a stranger?

Through direct real time interaction which is projected on the environment,the viewers as an active participants and observers can enter/ or gaze at distinct scenarios as they move back and forth between maintaining and creating borders. A sense of illusionary space and time is created as they find themselves lost in a simulated environment experiencing and penetrating symbolic space.

To be lost in a simulation is to believe or to be caught in its illusionary power- a testimony or invitation to question long held beliefs about consciousness,reality and perception.

“Accidental Monuments” 1998 was conceived and produced with a research grant during my residency at the Institute for Research in the Arts, College of Fine Arts, Tempe, Arizona.
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