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Solipsism Syndrome
Single-channel video, running time 3:10 minutes, 2006

Janet Biggs' video Solipsism Syndrome presents an alienating landscape where thrashing underwater dancers, swimming polar bears, and limitless frozen seas pose questions about captivity and free will. Biggs� subjects are situated at the problematic intersection of beauty, desire, and restraint.

As a theory, solipsism states that all perceptions exist only in an individual's imagination and that there is no reality outside of one's own mind. The whole of life becomes a long dream from which an individual can never wake up. This nightmarish state of mind can be triggered by time spent underwater or in the twenty-four-hour darkness of artic winter nights.

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bulletKurzner, Lisa: "Videos explore adolescents' accomplishments." Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 6 June 2008.

 

 

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