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2023 — Christiania Sound Archive
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2021 — Unsound Transmissions (Society for Disability Studies)
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Dogification (work in progress)
HD video (color, sound)
Logline: In a world of dogified subjects, everyday hounds work to heal, find purpose, and get the lives they want despite themselves.
Dogification is a video work illustrating a world of “dogified” subjects. The film treats psychological behaviorism and its cognitivist successors as theory and infrastructural condition: a governing logic through which subjectivity is evaluated and managed. Dogification aims to extend that logic to its limit, positioning animal-training methodologies in relation to contemporary psychological interventions and visualizing a therapeutic society where beings are corrected and disciplined towards their ultimate functions.
The video draws from psychological cinema, including a formal and conceptual analysis of The Gloria Films through use of audio from one of the three segments: the REBT model (a precursor to contemporary modalities that focus on cognitive and behavioral mangement) with therapist Albert Ellis and client Gloria. If behaviorism functions as a dominant metric for human value, what becomes of the subject who fails to perform? What happens when behaviorist frameworks are mapped onto unlikely figures?
Inspired by a text of the same name by S. Warren, Dogification extends the structuring logic of psychological behaviorism to its logical (absurd, inevitable) conclusion, illustrating how human value is quantified through a calculus of skill, optimization, and high psychological performance.