Subscribe!

(Excerpt of Subscribe! script)

Hi.
I’ve been absent because I didn’t want to be here
I'm sorry if what i did offends you

I made the wrong choices
i chose the wrong place
the wrong time
the wrong people

I thought that was a good investment
but I  lost myself in unknown pleasures
Im human
I'm sorry

I was young and have now growing as a person

I have depression and anxiety

like any other  actual victim

I don’t think I actually did anything wrong
I just can't feel love for anything

sorry, sorry again

I am not the character you were expecting,
I disappointed everyone even myself

I have no entertainment for you ,
I'm sorry,

I have been crying every night, for you, who have always supported me

I'm sorry and im sorry for my excuses

Subscribe! Subscribe! Subscribe!..."

(synopsis)

Subscribe! explores the possibilities of sharing and intimacy between a Youtuber and her audience - subscribers. The scenes are filmed on a set under construction, made up of objects - hardware that, being useless, are consigned to their form; to an almost primitive and emotional use of these devices. There is a rhythm that leads to frustration, revealed in the scenery, the objects and the interpretation itself, which tends to distract from its initial purpose: to attract subscribers - to convince someone. As in Patty Smith's quote: ‘...when you give love, you receive horseshit...’, in Subscribe! there is no possible correspondence.

Subscribe!
Installation:
1 video projection, 1 sound channel, 1 sculpture

plaster, metal
100x70x120cm

9’20’’ 2K, 16:9, color, sound

Performer:
Ana Reis
Sound:
Fernando Fadigas
Color correction:
André Torres

2022

Photos: Nuno Rocha
Exhibition - Que trata de coisas tocantes a esta história, e não a outra alguma - POGO, Lisboa