Scripted emotions

“Scripted Emotions” is a pseudo-romantic drama for two virtual binoculars. In an interactive panoramic installation a love affair loses its two protagonists and the viewer loses his illusions. “Scripted emotions” refers to the controlled emotional outbursts that actors must master when acting. The prescribed emotions: a sudden burst into a fit of crying, laughter on command, a ‘spontaneous’ rage.

In the installation, it is not only the characters who suffer from prescribed behavior, but also the landscape behind them that turns out to be the real protagonist. Two tourist binoculars generate a trompe l’oeil, a visual translation of a world suffering from an increased heart rate and veined with fiber optic cables and satellite links.