Distorted, smeared, sweeping. Ghostly bodies rushing past, eyes lurking in every corner. Dizzying visions verging on delirium.
As continuous streams of untethered images and information pass at overwhelming speed, the pace of life exceeds our capacity to process what the eye captures into conscious thought. With invisible structures ever more shaping our desires, behaviours and bodies, lucid sight slowly dissolves. Blurred by saturation, we keep trying, like neurotics, to make sense of the violent flood of impressions, sounds and signs, while everything we see and experience drifts out of focus.
LUCID RHAPSODY–Ballad of a Schizophrenic turns this delirium into a motor of creation. Its title is borrowed from Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, where the figure of the "schizophrenic out for a walk" stands for liberated modes of being, resisting rigid categories of identity, social structures and norms. Desire, unlike in Freudian theory, is not compensation for a lack but a generative force: it links bodies, images and systems, giving rise to an expanded, hallucinatory vision, a heightened form of seeing.