Scratch Yawn Hum
2015, video for visitor’s smartphones (4 minutes, silent), QR-Code
Installation view: Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, 2016
Installation view: Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, 2016 (photo © Axel Grüner)
Is everything around appearing so normal only because everyone is following certain instructions? At the touch of a button, a visual realm opens onto your smartphone screen and you become personally connected to a motion picture. Accessible through the QR-Code displayed in the exhibition, once connected with your smartphone, a video begins. Scratch, Yawn, Hum touches upon the spectacles of behavior within a public sphere by reflecting on the inner thoughts of the protagonist, which insists on a staged „reality.“ A black screen produces one sentence after another, addressing you directly, giving commands, asking questions. The narration becomes more and more familiar, the more it interacts with you and your surroundings. Your focus constantly shifts from observing your surroundings to looking down at the words displayed on the screen. Searching for a correlation, the act begins to resemble that of reading a movie‘s subtitles.