Cooing

8'20'', video with dance-artists Valentina Lusenko and Vadim Elichev

2020

camera: Mikhail Pashkulsky
music: Ilari Edelmann

If we try to look at ourselves with a gaze of a child, we may see ourselves anew, as if for the first time. What we see (and how we see it) will not be attached to an already composed unified image of ourselves which an adult has. Practising the childishness of the gaze-astonishment we may bring back an interest in exploring ourselves, and then another person is seen as a curious multiplicity of objects, just as we are. Three phenomena - the gaze, the dance, and the sound - have one common quality: a genuine curiosity intrinsic for children.