2000

Four-channel video installation with projections on glass plates and acting performance in a glass box

Loop: 4 x 16’ | Variable dimensions

The video installation proposes 44 definitions of the word God, all of them containing 4 letters and projected on 4 screens: God is Love, God is View, God is Fact, God is Half, God is Good, God is Cold, God is Fate, God is Game, God is Word, God is Lips. Accompanying the definitions are documentary images of people frantically using their mouths and words to persuade others—among them priests, politicians, teachers, judges, vendors, preachers. These videos of professional word–spinners are projected onto glass plates set beside a glass case in which, from time to time, a performer plays bingo live, proposing the troubling and surprising possibility of the existence of God as a concept with more power of persuasion than any other. 

Faith moves mountains, but there are mountains of things that move faith. The manipulation of the individual’s need for faith by a range of power–political interests has been slowly corroding individual belief and religious practice since the dawn of society.