Liberty Bells
2026
CZ
Academic
Installation
AVU, Klauzury
Dual-channel video installation, Raspberry Pi, 3D print, assemblage, electronics
120 x 90 x 50 cm
Pleasure today permeates everyday life through digital infrastructures; having fun is not supposed to trigger guilt, because the most effective control does not feel like prohibition, but like comfort, offer, and the possibility of choice. The permanent carnival, when the principle of temporary rule-breaking, laughter, and masking spills into ordinary life, promises a freedom that is precisely dosed as sensation and governed by micro-decisions, repetition, and reward. The videos function as dispatches: short fragments assemble situations that cannot be closed by interpretation; in the rhythm of return, time, affect, and attention are dispensed, much like slot machines or pinball without catharsis, where energy circulates but leads to no resolution. The visual material is a relational, non-linear whole: gathering motifs, assembling them into an aggregate, and building a sequence that offers a field of fragments instead of explanation. The sequence is randomized by code behind the scenes; a dual-screen installation runs in parallel in an inertial mode and, when a physical trigger, reminiscent of a pinball launcher or a stimming toy, is activated, briefly switches to a more intensive variant. The work maps power in entertainment: carnival beside mask, pinball beside linear progress, laughter beside punishment, and traces how permitted deviation, through repetition, becomes permanent operation that stabilizes order.