Reflex

Analogies, metaphors and symbols are the strings which keep one’s mind connected to the world, Hannah Arendt said. With “Reflex”, Yiannis Pappas investigates these strings not only as connections of humans experiences, but as strategies of stabilizing processes. How does the individual’s location in the world get formed by the law and bureaucratic actions? How do symbolic acts of order, submission and discipline create society and conformity? The title “Reflex” refers to the spontaneous and instinctive response to a stimulus which is firmly established in our human awareness and our body. By involving himself in a performative act of destablishing, Pappas questions the term as a metaphor of something inherent biological and also reflects on its potential of empowerment.