Angus Borsos

One has an experience qualitatively like perception, but there is no external object that one is perceiving – the world is a hallucinatory hologram. I might be seeing a pineapple on the table where there is in reality nothing at all. Normal perception in an algorithm of data, we are sophisticated. We have created technology to electrically stimulate our senses. We have stomach fulls of lightning bolts. We inhabit a false mental state that represents reality in ways we want to see. We are not aware but we think we are.

We live in a world of double vision, close one eye and than the other and you will see a shift in your peripheral. Put your finger to your eye and find a replication -– two of the same scene. So how can they both be the same physical objects when they are seen in two places at once. We are looking at data through sense experience. One might also pose the argument that of the two things you see, they are but appearences of the same thing. Grab hold of the vase with both hands and see if it falls.

There is also a time gap. A delay between the event in the physical world and our perception of it. This is most stark in the case of distant stars, which may burn out and yet still be “seen” thousands of years later, as the light continues to travel the distance between the star and us. There are certain and distinct parcels of matter that correspond to our ideas, though they may not necessarily excite our minds, or immediately affect us (being unperceivable) they are there nevertheless, in the state of this, by which in this art percieved on so many occasions we can be reminded that we exist and that we may go on and wear the uniform of matter.

A video experiment originally intended to lead to a larger work. Conceived in Paris in 2012.