Stefano Pasquini
One day laughing in this surreal earth
color DVD, stereo, 26 42, 2008
The video shows a fictitious 24 hours performance, where the artist, in the middle of an unspecified field, is stuck into the earth with his hands and feet into the ground, and laughs continuously like a maniac.
Metaphorically, its a surreal reaction to many things that are surreal in this world, and yet they are real because they happen and involve a lot of people and suffering. If you think, for example, about the second Iraqi war, that was defined as preventive war. This term, according to Wikipedia, is for a war initiated under the belief that future conflict is inevitable, though not imminent. To me this is a good example of a surreal happening that, although unexplainable, gains a certain amount of consent with the population.
The camera follows the laughter of the artists walking around him while speeding the pace. At the end of the video the artist stops and and rests flat on his face as the video fades out.

Camera: D.Russo

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