‘Counting stars, shooting sheep’
2023
Video work
00:06:20 min
Sound design: Gregor Connelly, guitar: Jason Athanasiadis
’Counting stars shooting sheep’ is a video work which consist of five different parallel stories and fantasies that are taking place in sleepovers and parties where the innocence and power are shifting back and forth. The work is exploring the dynamics of girlhood and conventions of femininity by creating scenes where things can spark and playing take over. The work is mixing personal experiences with the observations making the reality and fantasy getting blurred in the created stage for the characters where room is left for improvisation. The video is a tool to follow the stories that are happening in which the viewer is visually guided to observe the roles and the playing while the emphasis is in the absurdity of domesticity. The childlike imagination and created worlds around are morphing with the unconscious mind and desires.
In the end of the day the power dynamics are clear in this story just like when playing house as a child: everyone wants to be the big sister and you have to fight who becomes the dad.