CWHILT represents a commercial advertising spiritual illumination, which can be easily consumed via smartphone. The otherweise idyllic commerciaziled aesthetic is punctuated by recurring technical and contect-related lapses: the performer loses her bound leg, an urgent question remains unanswered on the phone, the meditation produces embarassingly intimate moaning, a robot-like construct in the shape of an origami figure appers and disturbs the meditation of the protagonist. The work is an allegory of what Roland Robertson called 'glocalization': a paradoxical juxtaposition of Western consumer culture and the world of Zen Buddhism.
by Bernhard Pirkl
