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Screen Walk with Maria Guta
About this film
In this very special Screen Walk you’ll meet Iris for a live Q&A session spiced up with surprise rituals and routines all of which offer glimpses into Iris’s fascinating mind and her lavish home in Switzerland. Iris is a character invented by artist Maria Guta in collaboration with Lauren Huret. She is the embodiment of their common fascination for over-hyped social media celebrities and influencers. A phenomenon where celebrities are seen as fabricated identities and have become true political and religious icons of today’s society. The event is also a commentary on the relationship between humans and their media image, the knowledge they convey and the influence on the psyche of other members of their species. Escape “media bewitchment”. Join Iris. Screen Walks is a series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. A new online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery , UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur , Switzerland. Screen Walks is kindly supported by: Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.
Directors & creators
Screen Walks
Subjects
Screen Walks, Maria Guta, social-media, capitalism, circulation, performance
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