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‘Schizophrenia’ is a gallery installation that is visible to the visitor as a TV set that is not tuned to any particular channel so that it just shows white noise on the screen.
The installation is intended to reproduce the experience of schizophrenia as a boundary disorder, where it becomes unclear when or where words are coming from, and whether they are coming from the inside or the outside.
Psychosis comprises a screen, a video camera, a computer and a sound system. Using the camera, the computer views what is happening in the gallery and processes the video stream in real time in the manner of a ‘psychotic machine’. The resulting image is projected. The projection therefore displays a psychotic perception of what is taking place at that moment in the installation environment. The projection shows a video feed of the gallery space overlaid with military equipment that the computer has mistakenly ‘seen’ as a result of its psychosis.