Hypothesis 5 (2025)
Hypothesis 5 is a multimedia installation and performance that explores the screen as a vanishing point between truth and its opposite. Centered around the purported use of a sonic weapon at a protest in Serbia in March 2025, the work uses uncertainty as a framework to explore ‘the crowd’ and the forces that shape its behavior—both physically and virtually. At the core of Hypothesis 5 is the tension between the de-individualizing force of the crowd and the atomizing function of the algorithm. The work performs the slippage between these two forces. Hypothesis 5 does not just depict control—but mirrors the subtle, internalized forms of it, where we are no longer coerced but self-regulate through affect, paranoia, and performance. The work combines printed matter, an ultrasonic directional speaker, and the repetitive hypnotic visuals of the crowd to create an affective audiovisual experience.