audiovisual artist & filmmaker
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My audiovisual practice reflects on how we perceive and inhabit our environments. I create slow, quiet moments that act as pauses in time, opening up spaces for reflection on how reality is constructed, mediated, and experienced.
With a background in film directing, I am strongly influenced by the cinematic experience: the darkened room, the fixed frame, and a sense of suspended time. Exploring what it is to slow down, in a world that pushes for constant speed, productivity and attention, feels to me like a poetic act of resistance.
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FLORINDA CIUCIOTHE TELEPHONE GAME
THE TELEPHONE GAME
2024, 5’, 8-channel sound installation
project support by VOCATIO foundation
installation view at public library ‘Permeke’, Antwerp, Belgium
THE TELEPHONE GAME is an 8-channel sound installation, exploring fake news and misinformation. Through a children’s game in which a story is gradually being distorted as it is passed along a whisper chain, the work reveals how news stories change as they spread.
A group of teenage high school students in Antwerp, Belgium share a fictional news article through this whisper chain. The article is inspired by the complexities of today’s geopolitics and each version of the article is recorded one after the other. The installation features 8 audio channels, each playing a different version of the article, revealing a gradual distortion.
As the story evolves across the 8 speakers, it becomes increasingly absurd and humorous, because of the boundless imagination of young people. The work demonstrates how easily the truth becomes distorted and how quickly roles can shift between “the perpetrator” and “ the victim”, or “the good” and “the bad”.