Power and Responsability is a series comprised of a video and four sculptures of wooden weaponry. The video, titled Thank you for the Experience, I Have Leveled Up, consists of footage in which the artist “role-plays” or performs as a videogame character akin to the role-playing genre. The artist adopts the body language of a formulaically mechanised avatar, running at an even tempo and showcasing attack animations both in third person and first person view. These images are cut between “cut-scenes” in which the artist speaks about dynamics of power, and its relationship to fantasy weaponry, constructing a “lore” for the piece itself.
This project was the product of PACTO’s Galicia Residency, in which the artist was researching the notion of “Luxury Primitivism”, or the concept of living within a natural habitat with limited but liveable resources and access to mobile phones and social media.
Ped.Moreira donated one of the weapons sculpted to the residency grounds as a metaphorical Excalibur altar, with runic symbols pertaining to past theological beliefs and a coded inscription about power and burden.
Power and Responsability is a series comprised of a video and four sculptures of wooden weaponry. The video, titled Thank you for the Experience, I Have Leveled Up, consists of footage in which the artist “role-plays” or performs as a videogame character akin to the role-playing genre. The artist adopts the body language of a formulaically mechanised avatar, running at an even tempo and showcasing attack animations both in third person and first person view. These images are cut between “cut-scenes” in which the artist speaks about dynamics of power, and its relationship to fantasy weaponry, constructing a “lore” for the piece itself.
This project was the product of PACTO’s Galicia Residency, in which the artist was researching the notion of “Luxury Primitivism”, or the concept of living within a natural habitat with limited but liveable resources and access to mobile phones and social media.
Ped.Moreira donated one of the weapons sculpted to the residency grounds as a metaphorical Excalibur altar, with runic symbols pertaining to past theological beliefs and a coded inscription about power and burden.
This project was the product of PACTO’s Galicia Residency, in which the artist was researching the notion of “Luxury Primitivism”, or the concept of living within a natural habitat with limited but liveable resources and access to mobile phones and social media.
Ped.Moreira donated one of the weapons sculpted to the residency grounds as a metaphorical Excalibur altar, with runic symbols pertaining to past theological beliefs and a coded inscription about power and burden.