Welcome,
Sit down Please

2015, 2019

Video installation


”Welcome. Sit down please.
Ah, there you go.
Relax.
Now, let us try and make you happy.
Breathe in, breathe out.
You’re doing good,
doing perfect…”

This ongoing series of works monitors video as a communication device. Contemplating issues such as manipulation, control and artificial intelligence and the effect it has on people. The first installment featured a screen with an interactive DVD-menu labyrinth. The participant had the opportunity of navigating through self aware comments with an invasive personality, contemplating its own and the spectators awareness and consciousness.
with an invasively personal twist.The second installment consisted of a relaxing happiness hypnosis program taking place in a clinical waiting room

Fotograf: Robin Åhlgren