Forced Actions
Forced Actions is a series of short video performances, which was originally made in 2003 and 2004, and then expanded in 2010. The series portray the artist performing simple repetitive actions in front of the camera, sometimes while repeating mantras such as “I must be clean”, “I must be beautiful”, or “I must be happy”.
As the artist’s movements become increasingly frantic and self-destructive in each of the videos, Forced Actions expresses the potentially damaging internalisation of society’s demands on the individual, and the dangerous habits related to the individual.
Each video within the series was filmed in one unedited take.