BE FREE OF BEING A BANANA
Short assignment into otherness
“Within online role playing games 23 percent of men opt to play as women, but only 7 percent of women changes gender.”
In the online role playing game world people feel free to break from what and who they are suppose to be in “real life”, they can experience the other without changing themself in the physical world.
“1 split my mind. I’m getting better at it. I can see myself as being two or three or more... I go from window to window... And then I’ll get a real-time message and I guess that’s Real Life. It’s just one more window. Real Life is just one more window.”
-Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Seeing the world as just another window, and the online world as well made me realise how people can be free, and have centain roles in one window and others in Real life, another window.
“All banana’s sold across the western world are from cavendish group and are geneticly nearly identical.”
All banana’s are the same. They look slightly different but geneticly they are nearly the same. Just as humans who share 99,8% of their dna with everybody other human.
Using the banana’s as a methaphor for humans, I made an instalation of banana’s laying on a screen with quotes of online players carved into the skin. The bananas represent the game players in real life, stuck in their skin and being just like every other human.
On the screen a video playing is playing, showing the banana’s in another window, not in real life. They change shape and form and are able to be free of being a banana.
‘Within online role-playing games, 23 percent of men opt to play as women, but only 7 percent of women change gender.’
In the online role-playing game world, people feel free to break from what and who they are supposed to be in 'real life'; they can experience the other without changing themselves in the physical world.
'I split my mind. I’m getting better at it. I can see myself as being two or three or more... I go from window to window... And then I’ll get a real-time message and I guess that’s Real Life. It’s just one more window. Real Life is just one more window.’
- Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Seeing the world as just another window, and the online world as well, made me realize how people can be free and have certain roles in one window and others in real life, another window.
'All bananas sold across the Western world are from the Cavendish group and are genetically nearly identical.'
All bananas are the same. They look slightly different, but genetically they are nearly the same. Just as humans share 99.8% of their DNA with every other human.
Using bananas as a metaphor for humans, I created an installation of bananas laid on a screen with quotes of online players carved into the skin. The bananas represent the game players in real life, stuck in their skin and being just like every other human. On the screen, a video is playing, showing the bananas in another window, not in real life. They change shape and form and are able to be free of being a banana.
2021
“Within online role playing games 23 percent of men opt to play as women, but only 7 percent of women changes gender.”
In the online role playing game world people feel free to break from what and who they are suppose to be in “real life”, they can experience the other without changing themself in the physical world.
“1 split my mind. I’m getting better at it. I can see myself as being two or three or more... I go from window to window... And then I’ll get a real-time message and I guess that’s Real Life. It’s just one more window. Real Life is just one more window.”
-Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Seeing the world as just another window, and the online world as well made me realise how people can be free, and have centain roles in one window and others in Real life, another window.
“All banana’s sold across the western world are from cavendish group and are geneticly nearly identical.”
All banana’s are the same. They look slightly different but geneticly they are nearly the same. Just as humans who share 99,8% of their dna with everybody other human.
Using the banana’s as a methaphor for humans, I made an instalation of banana’s laying on a screen with quotes of online players carved into the skin. The bananas represent the game players in real life, stuck in their skin and being just like every other human.
On the screen a video playing is playing, showing the banana’s in another window, not in real life. They change shape and form and are able to be free of being a banana.
‘Within online role-playing games, 23 percent of men opt to play as women, but only 7 percent of women change gender.’
In the online role-playing game world, people feel free to break from what and who they are supposed to be in 'real life'; they can experience the other without changing themselves in the physical world.
'I split my mind. I’m getting better at it. I can see myself as being two or three or more... I go from window to window... And then I’ll get a real-time message and I guess that’s Real Life. It’s just one more window. Real Life is just one more window.’
- Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Seeing the world as just another window, and the online world as well, made me realize how people can be free and have certain roles in one window and others in real life, another window.
'All bananas sold across the Western world are from the Cavendish group and are genetically nearly identical.'
All bananas are the same. They look slightly different, but genetically they are nearly the same. Just as humans share 99.8% of their DNA with every other human.
Using bananas as a metaphor for humans, I created an installation of bananas laid on a screen with quotes of online players carved into the skin. The bananas represent the game players in real life, stuck in their skin and being just like every other human. On the screen, a video is playing, showing the bananas in another window, not in real life. They change shape and form and are able to be free of being a banana.
2021
