everybody knows

In 2018, I started a project to explore climate change. My project started with the question – Why should it be any different for planet Earth? The first work was the video Everybody Knows an audio-visual essay (8:20 min) and based on the structure of an ancient Greek drama and it includes a prologue, scenes, an exodus and a choir that comments on the story line. In my version, the choir is all female and not like before where the choir used to be all male.

The ancient dramas were demanding; they were trilogies that started at sunrise and went on till sunset. It is difficult to imagine this kind of patience in a contemporary audience who is used to the online take on the world and my video includes a fast forward function and very early on, the total duration of Everybody Knows is displayed so you know just how long – or how little – time I require from you; a function that might trigger an inner progress bar in the back of your mind.