My terminal creative project is concerned with spectatorship, freedom and control, the technologies of the grid and virtual reality, theatricality and performance. I investigate the tropes of the Western and the figure of the cowboy as an avatar of the ideology of freedom rooted in Manifest Destiny and widely distributed through culture. The final outcome is an installation including worn outdoor chairs, performance videos shown on a flat screen TV and a VR headset, a large-scale photo print, other smaller photographs, a metal wire mesh and a grid-like pattern on the floor made of holographic tape. The viewer becomes part of the choreography of the exhibition as a time-based event that brings different times and places together into a temporal togetherness.
