Sevenstepsaway / Aslı Sağlam

The video addresses the issue of political and social censorship. In response to audio commands activated by the movements of the viewer (via 7 sensors), a woman begins to cover her "senses" with a black bandage. As she covers herself with the bandage her image becomes progressively lost in the black background, referencing the Kokken dressed in black who depict absence on the stage in Noh theater. The woman's slow, mechanical rhythm in the sensor-triggered video mirrors the rhythm of her thoughts, which are outside of day-to-day space and time.