STRANGENISS IS
STRANGENESS IS: Is an audio/visual installation that exists out of four led screens, a rock, two tire tracks of a tractor, two speakers, a sub, moss and water. It explores our relationship with non-human entities. Sound goes from strange to familiar and it interacts with the video that shows strangeness through multiple perspectives, which sometimes stays separate but also becomes one. The work sees non-humans as strangers. Strangers that are seen as familiar but still are treated as strange. It is related to the philosophy of Object-Oriented-Ontology (OOO), which is a theory that stands for the inclusivity of objects. Objects have certain qualities like its materiality and interconnections to their surroundings. OOO stands for anti-anthropocentrism, where we should see all non-human beings and human beings as equal. We often misunderstand the non-human world by seeing it only through our consciousness and perspectives.
If we look at the power structures that are now set upon this world we don’t see objects as equal. We see them as the other. In most cases, it is Human - Object - Subject relations. It’s about a way of thinking that we need to change. We need to stop othering things. We should treat everything with the acknowledgment that there are more perspectives to it than what you think. What these perspectives are isn’t important but just treat the stranger with care because strangeness is earthy, cautious, central, wise, unromantic, intelligent, interactional, delicate, constant and relational.
If we look at the power structures that are now set upon this world we don’t see objects as equal. We see them as the other. In most cases, it is Human - Object - Subject relations. It’s about a way of thinking that we need to change. We need to stop othering things. We should treat everything with the acknowledgment that there are more perspectives to it than what you think. What these perspectives are isn’t important but just treat the stranger with care because strangeness is earthy, cautious, central, wise, unromantic, intelligent, interactional, delicate, constant and relational.
