Video, 12’ & performance, 15’

Metaphors can be misleading or confusing, especially if they are used to describe a complex or abstract concept in a way that oversimplifies or misrepresents it. Starting in the 1870s, a giant octopus became one of the most popular political metaphors, used to depict countries, communities, nations, and ideologies. Today, it is often used to represent big corporations with wide access to personal data. This use of the octopus metaphor is quite negative and is generally considered derogatory and offensive. The audiovisual performance works with the idea of a hostile landscape as the habitat for a metaphorical creature that tells a story about fear, violence, forced influence, and control.