The installation consisted of three computer monitors connected to a MIDI touchpad. Through this controller, visitors could manipulate and distort a series of animations inspired by David Claerbout’s Cat and Bird in Peace, a work depicting a cat and a small bird sitting together for hours. Claerbout’s idea of “live and let live.”

My project reinterpreted this scene by exploring its opposite: anxiety and doom-thinking. I asked friends to closely observe Claerbout’s work and share the first catastrophic scenario that came to mind. Each of these imagined outcomes was then translated into an animation. I contributed my own interpretations as well.

All animations were brought together in a single installation, where visitors could actively interfere with and distort them using the MIDI controller.