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LIFE IN 2.5 DIMENSIONS (last edited: 2021)

Sonia Hedstrand

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Three-dimensional life is the complicated physical reality where we work, miss the bus, get sick, are let down, feel unseen and become depressed. Two-dimensional life is the exciting, beautiful, dramatic, entertaining and flat world of pictures, TV series and computer games. Where everything is much easier, and where we choose to spend more and more of our time. What happens when the boundaries between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional worlds are blurred? When everyone uses filters to look better and only post about their successes but no setbacks? When you can marry your beloved anime character in a VR game? When you can rent a partner who is always happy? The research project ‘Life in 2.5 dimensions’ is a reflection on how the increased degree of representation and performativity professionally and socially is related to the development of global experience capitalism, and how an escalating consumption of games and social media affect our relationships and emotions. In animated and documentary videos, we get to know a type of Japanese workers called ”sakura”, which means "fake customer". These are people who work with renting out their emotions. They support themselves by acting as family members, partners, dates, or friends in physical reality. The work analyzes a societal situation in post-industrial economies where community and belonging can be purchased in the form of performative, aesthetic and emotional service work.

type	research exposition
date	23/05/2021
last modified	13/09/2021
status	in progress
share status	public
copyright	Sonia hedstrand
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1271964/1271965

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name	02 Art forgers and old masters
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name	03 The artist as secret agent
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name	04 The artist as paradigm
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name	05 Instagram boyfriend experience
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name	06 Walking people
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name	07 Profit on the dream life
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name	08 What is a job?
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name	09 The precariat
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name	10 The cognitariat
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name	11 From silence to cacophony
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name	21 Infatuation in image society
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name	31 Coveted authenticity
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name	12 Single and workaholic
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name	13 Sakura - rentals in Tokyo
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name	14 Performative labour
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name	15 Emotional labour
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name	16 Surface acting and deep acting
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name	17 Love labour of a rental mom
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name	18 Aesthetic labour
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name	19 The photographing worker
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name	20 The right to pose
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name	22 The otaku's 2 dimensions
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name	23 Welcome home, Master
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name	24 Moe - a special feeling
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name	25 2.5 and hyperreality
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name	26 Eternal teenage crush
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name	27 Comfortable closer to fiction
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name	28 Digital relationships
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name	29 Society is wedding
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name	30 Save the show
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name	32 Real friends for rent
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name	33 Feeling unreal in the factory of unhappiness
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name	34 Voluntary self-exploitation
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name	35 Disneyland <3 Venice
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name	36 Potemkin villages
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name	37 Independence for sale
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name	38 What is left for art?
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name	39 Rent an art audience
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name	40 Epilogue
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