Is the meaning of life to serve one God or many Gods, do we live to serve a system or do we live for our own pleasure? I do not pretend to know the answer, neither do I maintain that there is an answer, also I have no interest in…
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One can live passively or actively. When one is passive you do not have an input in your experience, one expects happiness to be provided. In contrast with active living, you take control, it is up to you to chose how to feel and think. I believe our society is…
What is happiness? Is it getting what you want, achieving your goal and living passively? I suspect not, in all cases I think they are substitutes of the real deal, an easy fix like a drug. Take advertisement which plays on the idea that if you buy the product you…
Do I think everyone should become licensed fools? No, I see it like this, there are professional dancers, but most can find enjoyment from dancing no matter their skill level. Just replace dancer with Licensed Fool. Now imagine a world where nobody dances and there are no venues for people…
If one becomes successful in a system then one also becomes a reflection of the system itself. Imagine a person who would become successful whilst living in Germany between 1933-1945, does that not put the morality of that person in to question, even though their profession was that of a…
Art I believe deals with our humanity. We need food and shelter to survive, but we need art to evolve and grow. In that regard, I see art as immensely important and not correctly valued in our society. Why do I need to define art? For me, it has become…
Plato’s analogy of the cave is fundamental to my practice because it can be used as a base to describe my thinking. It has been that way from the first art video I did in collaboration with Kristian Sinkerud, the film was called ‘Reality’ and was about a family eternally…