SUPER DEMOCRACY - The Senate of Things

Three cultural institutions enter into a dialogue with the Belgian Senate during the exhibition SUPERDEMOCRACY, which is on display throughout October. BPS22 in Charleroi, BOZAR in Brussels and M HKA in Antwerp provide a cultural dimension to the Senate’s current issues.

1.10.2017 - 31.10.2017

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

(c)still: AMVK
De sexuele revolutie, 1997
Video
computer animation

"The interactive projection “The sexual revolution” happens straight from a computer. It cuts the exhibition in two, happens on a fluorescent sheet of 2 by 3 meters and is divided in three. One can see three independent running animations, each with their own sound. The films can be stopped each one separately, and then activated again. When the mouse, that controls all these actions, is left alone for more than three minutes, the projection starts anew from the beginning. The image was first cut in the middle horizontally, then the top part was divided again. By this I try to act out a personal image of the human brain; top left is the conscious, top right the unconscious and underneath the subconscious. The subconscious is as large as the sum of both others.

I defined the Conscious as that what I order my material biotope to do, the SELF, 2 or 3000 years old, the Unconscious as that what the social biotope whispers to me, the instinct, the Knowledge, and the Subconscious as that what the genetic biotope offers me, the robot, the unconscious agens, science, intuition."

− AMVK


Images, animation and sound: AMVK

Interactivity: Danny Devos

Producer: Club Moral