ObjectIF / 22 - 27.03.21 / janhavi sharma / klara szafrańska

ObjectIF is an uninterrupted 168 hour long live streamed video challenging the materiality and conditioning of story-telling in the virtual world that blurs the lines between the real, projected, and perceived narratives. 

The video allows the viewer a glimpse into the story, where the protagonist is a filing shelf that has made its journey from a hospital in the 1960s to Backlit Gallery’s studios. The objective of the work is to explore a dialogue between the physical and the virtual materials, by extracting a seven-day physical existence of the object from a wider life-span, and live-streaming it.

The performance utilises the virtual space not merely as a medium to exhibit, but as an active participant of the piece that transforms and manipulates information, giving the viewers the experience of altered reality. 

Could we use the virtual to distort the physical or just its experience? 

What happens when the virtual stimulates a physical reaction, and the physical expects virtual company?

Do imposed distortions dramatise the act of performing?