Will You Dance With Me? (Kentskooking)
Video, 2023
About the artwork
Supposedly, the human ability to simulate potential future outcomes in the brain is the single biggest advantage we have over the rest of the animal kingdom. When coupled with the fear of rejection, however, it can become malignant. An unwelcomed guest in the head, preventing the action that is needed to overcome the state itself; a self-perpetuating cyclical process that can freeze and incapacitate. This is an interpretation of such a cycle taking place in the brain of an adolescent boy at his high school dance.
Sound design by Kentskooking
Audio explanation
Listen to Kentskooking discuss this work.
Kentskooking (also Kent), has had a lifelong passion for visual experience, finding a recent refuge in generative AI art. With no formal training in the traditional visual arts, he enjoys freedom from convention while searching for an increasingly unique aesthetic. He owns two cats with a proclivity for humor and the absurd; they are brothers.