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Statement

I stage emptiness.
Default, dis-identified and inhuman emptiness.
It is the vacuum, which is filled with the experience of re-discovering our own thoughts in this emptiness.

The last five years I was testing identities (stereotypes and clichés) through various techniques of dis-identification, in-humanization and representation. I tested heteronormative white pornographic representations, Eastern-European national identities through mixed techniques of digital, academic and corporate imagination. I was looking for the very thin edge between abstract and figurative, horrifing and ridiculous, human and inhuman. I found this edge as a field of vacuum which evokes horror vacui – a moment when somebody fills out the emptiness – and this can lead to changing perspective and new experience.

However, this way of artistic production is camouflage. A never ending pattern of hiding, voiding and cancelling.

Last year I focused on the default, average imagination. What and who is average? What are default settings of our life and imagination? This project is rooted in approaching everyday stereotypes – happiness, emotions – through corporate imagination. I created two manuals: the Happiness Manual and the How To Feel Emotions? manual, which are super-functional representations of basic human thoughts.

Default Productions was established in 2014; it is a collaboration with Lóránt Bódi in creating corporate-camouflaged productions, such as training videos for different types of exclusion and reenactment of basic situations with default human bodies.

The residency project is to keep on the research by map and reveal average/default imagination of human, in terms of body and reenactment. It traces the stereotypical – thus many times hidden – forms of reduction and replacement.