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I Wish I Was a Real Bat, so I Could Sleep All Day

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“When I first arrived to this place I was actually amazed by the clear sensation I connected. To access my private space the steps were way easier than expected, all my basic information was displayed transparently, I could organize my personal stuffs as I wanted in many compartments designed for this. Quickly, the feeling of being somewhere I knew, somewhere I owned, disappeared. I could see myself forced to be as close as possible to the design, to forget where I might be from, why I wanted to be here and what the plan might be. This experience of emptiness gave me the ultimate desire to produce contrast, to feel vibration from an inner space, to actually lives-through what I conceived till now as my own bodiness. From this corporal introspection I started to reflect on myself from the outside, to inhabit a time where commodification meets alternate narratives. To be able to invent new reasons, for what I actually forgot, this potential as the purest ideal could leave sexual fantasies to actual reproduction rite and allow me to transform to an unpredictable matter for the first time ever. The challenge still continues in an off-center vision to host differences themselves, being their own guest first. I know now what I liked coz you commented on it, but if I comment back on, it can maybe modify, tensify what you actually took as a fact, but if I chose to sleep all day dreaming on something else you will probably be able to become someone else, as may I. Else Else Else”

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The exhibition project I Wish I Was a Real Bat, so I Could Sleep All Day has been created collectively materializing a hidden entity/activity in one room of the hyperglobal CitizenM Hotel in Amsterdam through different gestures and angles. Theses over-layered subtly the physical space for a brief period, attempting to re-empower themselves from the contextual social constraints and regulations. Artworks produced before the show and others especially made for this situation were invited to occupy  strategically the place and create a new landscape together. Online social-media activities around the room identity and qualifications have been taken mainly as a matter to extend the notion of production time and art piece borders rather than a media only. Involved sometimes directly as a raw material for the artworks to bring back into the room space-time itself and/or as a speculation of its future mediation and archive conditions.

The audience could find itself being at the same time the guest and the host of this ‘undefined character’ incarnat-ed by the collective show, as if they owned the room the time of the visit. Each visitors invited to single-person appointment by pre-arrangment had to meet an interlocutor and collect the magnetic key to head discreetly and freely to the room 109 for 30min. The interlocutor was waiting visitors for pre and post visit meetings in the hotel’s lobby or on a public bench behind the hotel building, offering also a privileged time for informal exchange and mediation around the project itself right after the visit. This project took a sort of role game format aiming to complexify the approach of the current challenges for the symbolic and its potential efficiency in the digital media era.

Antonin Giroud-Delorme

full documentation of all parts of this project can be found here: https://mega.nz/#F!OiI3jAyK!FhKiza02RXonsYdejKxUcQ!GuYljaqS

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