asphyxia

In itself, plastic is beautiful. It’s alluring. You wouldn’t say it actually brings death. That it can suffocate. I soon felt claustrophobic. Abandoned, lost. There was this feeling: how beautiful it felt from the outside – versus how I felt in that enclosed space. I started breathing hard. It wasn’t until I felt suffocated that I realized how harmful it could be. I didn’t even realize what scared me the most: the texture I had on me or how it acted in nature. However, I tried to see what it was like to be it, to sense through it. I wanted to see how plastic feels, to experience what it experiences. Wind, rain, lightning… How does plastic breathe?

concept: Alina Tofan, GCV, Alexandru-Claudiu Maxim
performance / voice-over: Alina Tofan
video: Alex Claudiu Maxim
sound-design: Teo Rădulescu

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