ABHISHEK CHAUDHARY / 2 WORKS
Obituary of a relationship from the heart of your Motherboard (WITH Thea Kleinhempel)
The video essay is conceived as a performative meditation on the changing role of the humans in the evolving information landscape. As machines gain precedence over the human culture, we are also interacting with newer forms of re-imagining the machine as they revert a similar gaze on us, as humans. In our video essay, a spoken word performance envisions a machine speaking back to the human user about their slowly approaching disappearance. The recorded audio performance is rendered in a heightened ASMR format that blurs the lines between hypnotic and the sexual, the dreamlike and disturbing, when coupled the meditative visuals. As the devices we are accustomed interacting with gradually transform into other sensory inputs, we ask ourselves today, what will we be nostalgic about in the distant future, when the virtual experience we have then may no longer encompass the intimacy of touch and direct device interaction?
Abhishek Chaudhary
Thea Kleinhempel
Alex Rossa
Show me a face to the story
Abhishek Chaudhary is an artist and a writer based out of Prague and currently at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design. His recent textual and visual works are trying to befriend each other.
Thea Kleinhempel is a student of Communication Design Studies at Burg Giebichenstein Halle, Germany.