Video installation, loop, HD, Color, Stereo Audio

Fear of Flying is part of the research project, Non-knowledge, Laughter & The Moving Image. The research project has been exploring the capacity of the Moving Image and the Laughing Body for new and alternative modes of thinking, acting and being, and their potential to overturn our habitual course and change the order of things. It has been organised around four interests: Visuality, Affect, Embodiment and Polyphonic Montage. By shifting the attention away from images as forms of representations, to images as matter and waves of psychic intensities and fields of individuation, the project has explored communication not as a correct exchange of information, but rather as a clash and a coming together of forces. Through montage it has let the Moving Image itself become a theorizing subject, and to have it form the foundation for a series of screenings, events and discussions that, together with artists, researchers, theorists, students and audience, have been exploring the limits of knowing, through the possibilities of non-knowledge. Like the sudden invasion of laughter that for a moment sets us off course, it has been exploring ways in which we, organisms, bodies, technologies and environments communicate beyond instrumental language, subjectivity and reason, to experience what the moving image and our bodies can do and how they can teach us about the limits of our thinking.

Fear of Flying (2019) is a video-work shaped around a series of experiments which through Virtual Reality explores the paradoxical feelings of being simultaneously in control and out of control, here and there, moved and moving - states that are triggered by the complex system of interactions that take place between the technology and our bodies, nervous systems and brains.

Funded by the Swedish Research Council (2017-03110) and hosted by Kungl. Konsthögskolan/Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.