LOOP

An escape can take on many different forms.

LOOP is an immersive film installation which investigates the psychological limitations of escaping our everyday routines and what effect revealing those limitations has on present norms.

If an action is predetermined, does that mean that you have escaped or that you are trapped?

Sociologist and criminologist Stanley Cohen’s cartography of the everyday aims to dissect the mental management of the routine:

‘The life plan maps our existence. Ahead of us runs the career lines of our jobs, our marriage, our leisure interests, our children and our economic fortunes. But sometimes when we scan these maps, traverse these routes, follow the signs, we become strangely disturbed by the predictability of the journey, the accuracy of the map, the knowledge that today’s routine will be much like yesterday’s.’

This project applies this sense of longing for difference, and uses the inescapable loops of life as the architecture to investigate the objects, systems and behaviours of our daily routines.

Collaborators: Lilias Adair, Jean-Luc Ambridge Lavelle, Aino Tiovinen and Roni Ben Tsruya.

Films: ○, Split Screen, Makeup Relay