Hi.
I’ve been absent because I didn’t want to be here
Im 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
Im 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 ,
Im sorry,

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

im sorry and im sorry for my excuses

Subscribe! Subscribe! Subscribe!..."

(Excerpt of Subscribe! script)

Subscribe! plays out a sequence of actions and texts from Youtube videos, and explores the possibility of sharing a certain 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 reduced to their form; to an almost primitive and emotional use of these devices. There is a cadence, a rhythm that leads to frustration, revealed in the scenery, the objects and the performance itself, which gradually deviates from its original purpose: to attract subscribers - to convince someone, at a distance in space and time, that they should see and hear these images and sounds. As Patty Smith says: "...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