video, sound, chairs, table – installation, 2018

Toma Peiu, Luiza Pârvu

Inspired by the work of visual artist Julian Rosenfeldt, we announced a “speechless” faux press conference in one of the rooms at the San Jose Sheraton Hotel’s Conference Center, where delegates to the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting were invited to take a seat and “listen” to protagonists whose presentations had been stripped of words. Motion and sound are broken down, fragmented, to direct attention to body language and production design that enhance the eeriness of powerful protagonists captured in a moment of heightened vulnerability – what I called “Nietzsche’s will to power at its most vulnerable.”

Staged at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Sheraton Hotel, Sacramento Room – November 16th, 2018.