The Relation Between Fictive and Physical Objects The work was first shown at Skulpturens Hus in Stockholm in October 2004. Different versions of the piece have been made with different installations and somewhat re-edited video loops at: With Us Against Reality or Against Us (2005 Willy Wonka, Oslo), Dwell (2006 Galleri 54, Göteborg) and Modernautställningen (2006 Moderna Muséet, Stockholm). The monologue is a reaction against the habit to make simplified distinctions between fiction and reality. I did NOT want to blur the line in some general way, saying that reality is fiction or some nonsense like that. I wanted to promote the idea of fiction as simulated realities produced by the same neural feedback system where our "consciousness" emerges. Fiction is thus both a tool in itself (like in "what if-scenarios"), and a by-product of one of the most powerful cognitive tools known to evolutionary history. When I am exposed to a fictional world that somehow keeps my interest, without being logically translateable back onto reality, then my brain gets really hungry. It wants to consume every last bit of that fiction, sensing some beautiful logic being hidden in there, just out of my reach. Its exstatic. The sense of logic is good enough, without any ultimate proof of actually intended logic. That sort of experience is to me the highest form of art. I don´t care about the intention, as long as the experience is exstatic. |