5 stages of grief in 3
(if you're in a rush and need to skip 2)
Collaboration between Oo Condit and Karolina Kucia
Sound design Rosie Swayne (forthcoming)
RC car operation Nanni Vapaavuori
(work in progress)
In 2021 I approached Karolina with the suggestion to make a work or an experiment together at the intersection of our research interests, using video as a medium and remote control human as an "actor". Karolina was working on monstrous organisations and parasitic strategies, and as our home campus was going through a process of reorganisation affecting staff working environments (including ours), that process became our context of engagement.
We devised a playful remote interview format through which we conducted ten interviews with members of staff affected by the ongoing changes. To channel these voices we created a character to skuttle along the abandoned campus corridors, leaving a trail of slime behind it. For us, it became an embodiment of affects created by evasive and opaque institutional communication, and of the kind of speech that only becomes heard as a whinge.