Observers

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The Observers performance installation is about how more often than realized, we act as observers in cases of oppression. The performance has 15 hanging eyes sculptures on the tree. The eyes represent individuality. This individuality is shown by the unique traits they all carry, such as different colours, cracks and missing elements. The cracks and/or the missing elements in the eyes, are signs of trauma and pain caused by oppression. They indicate how some individuals suffer more than others, at the hands of public administrations. As a collective, there all are affected by the tree branches on where they rest. When the wind blows, they all move with the rhythm of the tree. The tree is a paradox of subjection, a system in which it is deeply structured in our society and affects us individually, yet we still depend on it. The eyes are a collective consciousness. A consciousness where there is an awareness of systematic racism where oppression relies. But at last, the eyes are merely observers. The installation is a reminder that a collective consciousness it not enough. Colonial discourse within white supremacy revolves around stereotypes, prejudices and ignorance. All in place to identify BIPOC people as the “other”. This takes the embodied form in systematic racism. Without the action of dismantling these discourses, the collective consciousness is merely a performance act.

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