David Rosetzky: How to Feel

David Rosetzky has been commissioned to make a new video work that will premier as a cinema-scale projection in ACCA’s largest gallery space.

People of various ages (from 19 to 40) come together in How to feel (2011) for what appears, loosely, as a studio-based therapy/exercise workshop. Over the course of a single day, confidences are shared, personality traits discussed and reflected upon, and repressed emotions and vulnerabilities revealed.

Rosetzky’s video reflects on shifts in social relations, between public and private life, on and away from the screen, in our highly individualized society in which self-determination and self-improvement are taken as a given. How to feel provides an insightful portrait of a more relative, fractured and proliferating self, acutely affected by our environment and the people that surround us.

Audio Files
Rosetzky: How to Feel: Bored Feckless