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Revolving Histories (#bangbang-0228)

Im Sonnenschein
(2003)

https://www.braingarden.ch
Naegelin, Barbara
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Video art Cliché Humorously Singing Emotions Figure

Performance for the camera in the series The Trivial Pursuit of Happiness - Self-Experiment No 1 / Auto-Suggestion In the sunshine (You are what you think) Six minutes of beaming smiles. According to neurological research, the contractions of the facial muscles during a forced smile are supposed to cause the brain to receive a positive message from the body, i.e. the facial motor system. The result of this is that negative streams of thought are channeled into positive channels. The sung text comes from a certain Dr. Joseph Murphy, the "inventor" of positive thinking. The daily repetition of this autosuggestive litany has a similar effect to the forced smile.

place: Basel
Dokumentationstyp: Performance/Aktion für die Kamera / Performance/Action for the Camera

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Video 4:3
Dauer: 06:43