{"id":81,"title":"Schizo - Reality","dimensions":"00:05:07 min, 00:05:06 min, 00:05:08 min, 00:10:16 min, 00:10:27 min, 00:10:28 min, 00:38:36 min, 00:38:36 min","date_begin":"2003-01-01","material":"plastics, dvd","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003einstallation with 8 projections and balloon\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":"2008-01-01","reference":"S0436","stream_count_app":40,"permalink":"schizo-reality","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Azat Sargsyan","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/000/226/large/781Sargsyan,%20Azat,%20Shizo-Reality%202003-2008%20video%20still.jpg?1298289805","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSchizo-Reality\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;is an ongoing project motivated by the presidential and parliamentary elections in Armenia in 2003. During those elections, the Armenian people witnessed a blatant and cynical fraud, by which the regime reinstalled its own ruling elite. Due to the avid ambitions of those in power, Armenian society was denied its basic civil right - the right to vote. International observers, who had been following Armenian politics since the early 1990s, commented on the event with the cynical words: \u0026#39;Don\u0026#39;t worry, it will happen again.\u0026#39; A lack of decisive action allowed a climate of suspicion and schizophrenia to install itself in Armenian society. In \u003cem\u003eSchizo-Reality\u003c/em\u003e, the artist analyses this event by dividing it into eight video fragments, creating a critical video-installation. In the centre two politicians - who came out as competing candidates - talk on video screens at the opposite end of a horizontal column of air. On the sides images of a listening crowd are superimposed by someone scratching his nose. Only in the centre image of the end wall does an autonomous time seem to be found; the endlessness of prayer beads gliding through fingers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe video installatie\u003cem\u003e Schizo-Reality\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;is een werk doorlopend project, gemotiveerd door de presidents- en parlementsverkiezingen in Armeni\u0026euml; in 2003. Tijdens deze verkiezingen was het Armeense volk getuige van een flagrante fraude, waardoor het regime zichzelf aan de macht hield. Door de hebzuchtige ambities van de machthebbers werd de Armeense maatschappij haar basisrecht \u0026ndash;het stemrecht\u0026ndash; ontnomen en monddood gemaakt. Een klimaat van wantrouwen en schizofrenie kreeg gaandeweg vaste voet in Armeni\u0026euml;, waarop internationale waarnemers cynisch opmerkten: \u0026ldquo;Don\u0026rsquo;t worry, it will happen again.\u0026rdquo; In \u003cem\u003eSchizo-Reality\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;analyseert de kunstenaar deze gebeurtenis door ze in acht videofragmenten op te delen. In het centrum spreken twee politici, die als concurrerende kandidaten uitkwamen, op videoschermen aan de voorkant van een horizontale pilaar van lucht. Aan de zijkanten worden beelden van iemand die aan zijn neus krabt geplaatst bovenop beelden van een luisterend publiek. Alleen in het centrumbeeld van de achterste muur lijkt een autonome tijd gevonden te zijn; de eindeloosheid van een gebedssnoer dat door vingers glijdt.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":81,"name":"Azat Sargsyan","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}