speakers, amplifier, reverb, microphone, mixer, cables, fog machine, selection of book by Aristotle (450 x 350 x 400 cm)
sound installation
speakers, door (05:36 min)
Everybody is confused is a poem. It was adopted as a video work and as sound installations. In the video work five interludes of romantic-style piano music alternate with five passages of the lyrics. The poetic verses seem to coalesce with the noise and fog exhaled by the fog machine, confronting us with the uncertainties of a scientific belief system in times of information bubbles. What and who to belief is presented as an opaque network of feelings, which are expressed by the emotionally loaded musical interludes. The installative works materialise the network from which the poem tells as an ecosystem of different non-human agents, which together produce fog and sound. The sound of the fog machine is captured by the microphone, reflected through a reverb and then feeds back into the microphone via the speakers. Books of Aristotle encumber on the on switch of the fog machine, thus passively activating the feedback loop. The space is densely filled with fog, while the sound scape evokes a sense of forlornness. The setting is reminiscent of the so called Ganzfeld experiment, which induces hallucinations due to sensory deprivation.