Schizoanalysis/Harout Simonian

Schizoanalysis

Author: Harout Simonian

Year: 2000

The video performance is an attempt to overcome the presence of a camera. The video lens is the watchful eye of the public to counter which the author has an intimate conversation with the viewer. The work is two-screened. In the first one, the author is sitting in front of the camera, knitting and talking about topics that come to his mind. Regularly addressing the viewer, he expresses a desire to spend time with each other, somehow reminding them of the TV format. But there is a possible difference: in intimate communication with the audience, the artist shares such feelings as boredom, uncertainty, and failure with him.

The opposite thing happens on the second screen. It is a different environment, a different time, an attempt to break the string. The author seems to be destroying the previous action.

Eva Khachatryan (art critic)