Jue Hou

Aura, an Aura, the Aura.

Jue Hou 2020 03
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As Walter Benjamin suggested, the reproduction of artworks can devalue an aura of a work of art by compromising its history and authenticity. This project attempts a conversation between Benjamin's theory and art in the digital age by turning towards image-based and digital media.


The video records my life from a first-person perspective. It comprises a series of recorded, duplicated, misappropriated and edited videos to demonstrate a reality familiar to me.

These fragments - sporadic feelings of daily life - are organised and presented in an illogical arrangement. I believe our everyday emotions and experiences are fixated and recorded. Therefore, placing importance on them with technology paves a path for me to an imagined reality.

However, these reproducible and unloadable video clips should not be regarded as an aura's eviction, but rather, as its revival.

 

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