Reproduced
2017
dual-channel sound and video, plaster, textiles, wooden table
10 min 14 s
actor: Alexander Komlosi
cinematography and color grading: Martin Jåger
images and footage used under licenses from: Shutterstock, iStock and Pond5
Stock footage credits: 2598290 dualstock / 23199268 Video_d / 2372180 Yeamake / 2292479 Rocketclips, Inc. / 3185338 Mirko Pernjakovic / 15862897 jn14productions / 15081931 Pavel_dp / 8298277 Salavei A. / 2598290 dualstock / 3045679 kagemusha / used under license from Shutterstock.com iStock.com / rocketclips, iStock.com / Dimijana, iStock.com / roshinio, Stock media provided by Uzhursky / Pond5.com, Stock media provided by aliced / Pond5.com, Stock media provided by Dualstock / Pond5.com
made with the support from: Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art Collection
Here, we are invited to observe a communication exercise that is open to the public. The holder of the exercise – in its own words, a temporary reproduction – observes encounters between people in order to become one of us. But that transformation is incomplete: the figure is still transitioning from a two-dimensional form to a three-dimensional form.
By practising and putting its own words into the mouths of the people seen in the video, the figure tries to figure out what human interactions might possibly be about and how they could be imitated. At the end of these practice rounds, one can consider how the figure has succeeded in its task.