Installation view
The Gaze of the Other is Alienating
To resist the gaze of the other; that is the test.
DIRECTED BY VASILEIA DERELI
DURATION: 1 week
5-CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION
ATHENS SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
We become aware of ourselves only when confronted with the gaze of the Other, according to the existentialists. This gaze, says J.P. Sartre, immediately objectifies us and makes us deny our consciousness and freedom inherent to us.
At the same time, we recognise these qualities on the person that looks at us. In response to that gaze we will assert ourselves as free and concious, and attempt to objectify the individual who is objectifying us, thus reversing the relationship.
Following someone, in my point of view, is closely related with projecting on them qualities that we want to see in ourselves. The person followed is, in a way, a mirror, a reflective surface where we can get a glimpse of what we're yearning for. To resist the gaze of the other; that is the test.
As I read somewhere, "looking is a fundamental pleasure, invited or not. Voyeurism has its own innocence".
Installation view of the video installation "the gaze of the other is alienating" by Vasileia Dereli
Directing/Cinematography: Vasileia Dereli
Editing: Vasileia Dereli, Marios Pavlou
Sound Design: Myrto Christou, Nikos Arvanitis. Sounds taken from Freesound.org
With Myrto Christou, Lisa Nase and Vasileia Dereli in front of the camera
LISA
This video is part of the video installation "the gaze of the other is alienating" by Vasileia Dereli
Director/Cinematography/Editing: Vasileia Dereli
Sound Design: Myrto Christou, Nikos Arvanitis. Sounds taken from Freesound.org
with Lisa Nase in front of the camera
THE GAZE
This video is part of the video installation "the gaze of the other is alienating" by Vasileia Dereli
Director/Cinematography: Vasileia Dereli
Editing: Vasileia Dereli, Marios Pavlou
Sound Design: Myrto Christou, Nikos Arvanitis. Sounds taken from Freesound.org
with Myrto Christou in front of the camera
IRIS
This video is part of the video installation "the gaze of the other is alienating" by Vasileia Dereli
Director/Cinematography/Editing: Vasileia Dereli
Sound Design: Myrto Christou, Nikos Arvanitis. Sounds taken from Freesound.org
With Myrto Christou and Vasileia Dereli in front of the camera.
FOLLOWING
This video is part of the video installation "the gaze of the other is alienating" by Vasileia Dereli
Director/Cinematography/Editing: Vasileia Dereli
Sound Design: Myrto Christou, Nikos Arvanitis. Sounds taken from Freesound.org
with Lisa Nase in front of the camera