Gusztáv Hámos

ARTWORK

television art / video art

1995

The work is a video-essay that takes us into the world of fake love with interviews with such figures as (among others) Carolee Schneemann, Jeffrey Shaw, Sandy Stone, Hinderk Emrich, Kathy Acker, and Arthur Kroker. Is it possible to be in love with an artificial being? What is the relationship between this phenomenon and narcissistic self-love? What is Pygmalion's story really a model for? Is it possible for a being created by us to fall in love with us? What is the relationship between prostheses such as artificial legs and objects or possibly beings used as substitutes? The background for these questions is provided by the corridors, squares and buildings of the renaissance in computer animation, in which real machines move in a haunting manner, clattering, clapping, squeaking, as if an exclamation mark or rather question mark to their own existence. (Evelin Páll)