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The Perceived Truth
eteam's 'The Line'

The artistic duo of Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger formed eteam in 2001. Throughout these years, the pair investigated the intersection of relational aesthetics, internet and land art. They also created different projects, installations, videos and tests themed around topics like “Space” and “Reality”.

In 2012, they made a live film called “100 meters behind the future”, as part of the program called “For Real”. This live film about “delay” required the audience to be seated in a moving van, while holding an tablet device in their hands, and follow the route in double-view – seeing the route via a video on the tablet while simultaneously experiencing the route through the van’s windshield. Time zones and realities overlap, causing the passenger to reflect on the blurred line and time lag between “virtual reality” and “physical reality”, and how perception effects “truth”.

Lately, eteam has created “The Line”, a project based at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Visitors view and observe randomly computer-generated figures lining up, each of them having different identities and postures. The line becomes a metaphorical passage, simulating an activity we often experience and codifying our perceptions of the nuances of queuing and waiting for a variety of purposes.