"My brain!
It´s my second favorite organ"
Woody Allen
The video project „thoughts in general, no thoughts in particular" covers the topic of thinking.
How does one work with thoughts? (thoughts in the sense of banal thought processes)
How can we catch and hold them?
How can thoughts of others be understood and interpreted?
The thoughts appearing in my in work were collected using audio cassettes.
Approximately 100 persons from Austria and other countries were supplied with cassettes and asked via a " it yourself" interview to tape their thoughts and to return them to me.
The returned material was digitized and used as a film script-like guide for the production of the video sequences.
The figurative interpretation of the collected material is very freely selected, much like the emergence of visualizations in one´s own mind.
Views into the thought worlds of other people are made possible. The desire of being able to see or to hear other people thoughts, is reflected.
The work concentrates on banalities, non-directional thinking and unintentional thoughts taking place in ones mind.
If the consciousness dissolves, if one is daydreaming or falling asleep, the condition of not arranged thinking is present, the unconscious fades in, thinking frays out, one is thought, it thinks with one and one finds one´s thoughts again without knowing, how they came there.
The video project „thoughts in general, no thoughts in particular" contains eight video clips of different durations. Each clip includes the thoughts of one person.
Peter Sloterdijk. Wo sind wir wenn wir Musik hören? Versuch über den musikalischen Raum.
München .Unveröffentlichtes Typoskript. 1989
Duration: 18 min
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