A 9-minute video shot inside the multiplayer first-person shooter video game Counter-Strike in which Eva begs other players to spare her, because she is “doing performance art”. As a result, she gets killed over and over again.
Eva’s only interaction with other players is through the chat, which can be read at the bottom of the screen. The actual performance never begins, so the central element of the work is the reactions of the gamers, forcibly distracted by pretending to be terrorists or anti-terrorists, and reluctantly involved in the Mattes’ video.
Installed at Plugin, Basel
Installed at Rua Red, Dublin
Installed at Carroll/Fletcher, London
Installed at Western Australian Museum
Installed at MAAT, Lisbon
Screenshots from video
Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.