Venturing beyond the desktop background, moving, observing, gathering. Fake Jogger is the exploring unit: a female body in a colorful jumpsuit walks the edges of the urban landscape, wanders slowly through the ruins of agricultural and industrial legacies, interacts with contaminated nature and cars. Fake Jogger is inspired by a collective practice born during the pandemic’s first lockdown in Italy: it’s about being outside and slow, stretching and training, resisting solitude, grief and times of radical changes.
Fake Jogger is SF, storytelling about what is really going on. Fake Jogger uses a smartphone, a bike, a backpack, gloves, a bottle of water, aspirins and a tool to collect trash. Landscapes are themselves active as a mileu of situated everyday practice, in wich people make places and places make people in an inextricable relation and dialectic coexitence.The practice seeks ways to overcome the cultural division between nature and technology, while charting strategies of resilience or collaboration between the human and more-than-human.
The landscape is not the environment! The in-between is the core space of survival! I have the body I’m House in! Auszeit! Stories are bags for beautiful things.
Residency: 2024 Altre Memorie, Punto Zero, Udine, Italy. With the contribution of: Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia.
”FAKE JOGGER, un’uscita fuoriporta. Uscire e camminare, muoversi dentro e furi allo sfondo desktop, raccogliere. Fake Jogger (una figura che si ispira ad una prassi collettiva nata durante il primo lock-down) è chi osserva il paesaggio suburbano, si muove lungo i bordi e cerca programmaticamente nuovi modi di raccontare la realtà rinunciando alla separazione tra natura e tecnologia e tracciando strategie di resilienza o collaborazione tra umano e non umano.”