THE OBSERVER'S PARADOX
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Avec le projet Pulsus Paradoxus (2009-2011) s'ouvre le champ du paradoxe dit de l'observateur: comment étudier un milieu dans lequel le fait même d'observer agit sur le milieu?

Chaque épisode (Battement) est le télescopage d'images affectives (gros plans de personnes chères, temps de transits entre le maroc et la france, moments d'intimité, jeux confidentiels) et de questions issues des sciences de la cognition, de la psychologie de groupe, des sciences sociales.

Comment se tenir entre le besoin d'intimité et le devoir de transition?

La série compte à ce jour 12 battements = un dispositif interactif, deux textes et 9 épisodes = 9 crises = 9 résolutions.

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Field started with the Pulsus Paradoxus series with the alias T as in Mohamed Tayeb Bayri in 2009.

«In social sciences, the observer's paradox refers to phenomena where the observation of an event or experiment is influenced by the presence of the observer/investigator» (en.wikipedia.org).

Pulsus Paradoxus / Beat 1 is the first video I've made with material I've recorded myself. It started as a one shot reflection on my passive recording position within an active group of people interacting.

Instead of re-presenting this reflection, I wanted to assimilate it in the making of the video. Each episode is the matrix of the following episode, and each episode is an attempt at emancipating from its matrix. There is this constant opposition between the duty of continuity and the temptation of emancipation.

Here is the list of Pulsus Paradoxus / BEAT 1 unanswered questions:
Through what processes and means do individuals consider and evaluate? / What are the attributions individuals spontaneously make of an event? / How individuals react to the achievement of problematic acts? / What is the impact of the dynamics of a group on cognition and emotional states? / How do social groups control or contribute to the behavior, the emotion, and the attitudes of the individual members? / How do individuals act in social groups?

Here is the list of Pulsus Paradoxus / BEAT 1 unquestioned answers:
Mimicry is an adaptive strategy through imitation. / If gods there are, people feel the obligation to worship them. / Constantly repeated exercises are necessary, as those whose automatism eventually settles in the body of the soldier the moral self-possession which he will need the day of danger. / It's useless to seek in the march a rhythm or a law.

Each frame generates the other, each question generates its own questions and each answer generates its own frames. (Pulsus Paradoxus)

As of today, there are 12 beats consisting of 01 interactive work, 02 texts and 09 video episodes.