"How to Abolish the Audience" is a two-channel video installation that examines “the audience” as a political position – a position characterized by distance, comfort, and the possibility of remaining unaffected.

The first video in the installation shows a digitally constructed, waiting theatre audience whose figures were animated using footage of the artist’s body. The second video channel reveals the creative production process and exposes the digital construction behind the polished image. It demonstrates how labor-intensive but also fragile the creation of this audience is.

Created in the context of the circulation of images of the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the work engages with the question of what it means to be a spectator. It challenges the notion that visibility or empathy automatically lead to responsibility or action.

The carefully crafted comfort of the digital audience thus becomes a conceptual tool: The very care that creates a convincing audience ultimately turns against its position. Rather than trying to activate the audience or appeal to its empathy, the work destabilizes its position and literally rips it out of its supposed security. The work does not view responsibility as something that arises only through observation, but as something that already exists through our social and political interconnections without the possibility of opting out.