from Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts,
BA Animation
to Willem de Kooning Academy
spring semester 2020
I think I know what you are thinking right now. And no, I didn’t choose the soap dispenser because in Rotterdam my habit of washing my hands very often and thoroughly started. Also not because this year such pumps are generally used more often and need to be refilled more quickly. The thing just happened to catch my eye when I was standing in the bathroom, thinking about which object would be suitable as the protagonist in a video that I made with my smartphone from home.
That was in April. “New Frontiers” was the name of the module that was on the agenda at the time. Four weeks, interdisciplinary. The task was to investigate the current status of a given topic in small groups and then to spin it further, develop a future scenario and then illuminate it in video format. The group I was part of dealt with the (technological) development of dreaming. I came up with a version in which dreams are already specifically controlled by chemical processes that can be freely designed. There are no more nightmares. Everyone can spend a few hours in their own little paradise.
…and so I needed an object, something that could be used as a human figure and with which I could show how a dream junkie of the future would master day. Or not. Anyway, I needed the soap.
Let’s say that for me, the little plastic bottle stands for the improvisation that became more and more important in my exchange. For example, when it came to giving new structure to your own daily routine. Or, when an ongoing project had to be completed in a different way. Or even when creating a dystopian future world within your own four walls. But somehow, everything worked out. Simply with a soap dispenser in the leading role.
https://youtu.be/mwqsqw6NC24
that’s what I heard all the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY3ivLI0wSM
