RHYTHM OF THE UNKNOWN, MFA DEGREE PROJECT, 2021


Rhythm of the Unknown is a performative collage and film realised from a design and artistic project An Inquiry into the Act of Collaging. Through a conceptual understanding of collage as a methodology, the film is a response to the fear of the unknown and emotional uncertainty in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this emotionally charged performance, the work explores automatic drawing to visualise the emotional landscape of fears and anxieties experienced by young people. Based on a conducted online survey of people’s fears and anxiety triggers, the data was fed into an AI machine-learning program to generate an output script. The generated output script revealed the machine’s ability to interpret the human pandemic experience as a sequence of turblent emotions. The wider aim of this project is to propose collage as a critical design practice that promotes finding interconnectedness in the broken social fabrics of complex phenomenons, situations and experiences.

Work performed at Galleri Monitor & Rotor 2, Gothenburg, March 2021.