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Fingers to myself
Premiere 20.8.2004 at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma,
Helsinki, Finland

TJADER-KNIGHT inc. performs an operation to put into question the future comportment of policies for citizens fingerprints in order to be able to keep their fingers to themselves. Seated on each end of a long oblong table in a minimal setting, full of light, the operation is mechanically carried out.
I am not a criminal.

I keep my fingers to myself.
The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a Council Regulation that will set legally binding minimum standards for harmonised security features, including biometric identifiers, in all EU passports. Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION on standards for security features and biometrics in EU citizens’ passports Brussels, 18.2.2004 COM(2004) 116 final states:
“Following the tragic events of 11 September 2001, there was a call for immediate reaction in enhancing security features in documents. In this framework, it is worth to mention that the United States have set the 26 October 2004* as the final date for a visa waiver country ‘as a condition for designation or continuation of that designation that it has a programme to issue to its nationals machine-readable passports that are tamper-resistant and incorporate biometric identifiers that comply with applicable biometric identifiers standards established by the International Civil Aviation Organization’.”

*This date has been deferred on June 14, 2004 by the 108th Congress 2d Session as follows: “Not later than October 26, 2005, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall install at all ports of entry into the United States equipment and software to allow biometric comparison and authentication of passports issued pursuant to subsection.”

The Commission additionally wants to set up a centralised, biometrics-based ‘EU passport register’, which would contain the fingerprint(s) of passport applicants together with the relevant passport number. This would create a global database of over a billion people by 2015.
ARE WE ALL BECOMING SUSPECTS?

© TJADER-KNIGHT inc. MM-MMIV

produced by Boring Films
financially supported by
AVEK, FRAME

Sponsored by
Marimekko, ARTEK

Printwork courtesy by
Painotalo Suomenmaa, Oulu

digital film / spatial installation by TJADER-KNIGHT inc.

running time 24min 42sec – colour – stereo

Looking behind in time, collecting, recollecting, amplifying a moment long past.
Creating a perfect mirror of elongated distance.
Opening through, slowly, sounds followed by images, unraveling ..

By this manner the spectator is also brought within the scene, within the very originary.
T-K Inc.

“The purely optical and sound situation (description) is an actual image, but one which, instead of extending into movement, links up with a virtual image and forms a circuit with it. The problem is to know more precisely what is capable of playing the role of virtual image. What Bergson calls ‘recollection-image’ seems at first sight to have the requisite qualities. Of course, recollection images already intervene in automatic recognition; they insert themselves between stimulation and response, and contribute to the better adjustment to the motor mechanism by reinforcing it with a psychological causality. But, in this sense, they only intervene accidentally and in a secondary way in automatic recognition, whilst they are essential to attentive recognition: this latter comes through them. In other words, with recollection-images, a whole new sense of subjectivity appears. We have seen that subjectivity already emerged in the movement-image; it appears as soon as there is a gap between a received and an executed movement, an action and a reaction, a stimulation and a response, a perception-image and an action-image. And if affection itself is also a dimension of this first subjectivity, it is because it belongs to the gap, it constitutes its ‘insides’, it in a sense occupies it, but without filling or fulfilling it. Now, on the contrary, the recollection-image comes to fill the gap and really does fulfil it, in such a way that it leads us back individually to perception, instead of extending this into generic movement. It makes full use of the gap, it assumes it, because it lodges itself there, but it is of a different nature. Subjectivity, then, takes on a new sense, which is no longer motor or material, but temporal and spiritual: that which ‘is added’ to matter, not what distends it; recollection-image, not movement-image.
…
Bergson constantly reminded us that it was not by its own efforts that the recollection-image retained the mark of the past, that is, of ‘virtuality’ which represents and embodies, and which distinguishes it from other types of images. If the image becomes ‘recollection-image’ it is only in so far as it has been to look for a ‘pure recollection’ in the place where it was, pure virtuality contained in the hidden zones of the past
as in oneself … “
Gilles Deleuze: Cinema II The Time-Image

“In this so-called new world order of automation, which is simultaneously hyper-complex and indifferent to
us, what the individual who feels threatened by “new maladies of soul” is asking for is to have a genuine
experience. And they grant authority to those who convey such experience. A person with experience is rare.
What I mean by that is someone who has made their journey to the end of the night, fully aware of the loss
of self but who succeeded in regaining his self. What flows from the words he takes from that experience is
knowledge. He is neither a guru nor a dry savant, but someone who both knows and is flesh and blood
into the bargain.”
Julia Kristeva: revolt, she said

“The colours of the mind, exited by a flower or the moon should not be seen as self at all, but we think of
them as our self.”
Dogen: Shobogenzo

“Sage, Salvia officinalis, is perceived/distinguished as (a metaphor of) perpetual being/existence : one that
grows sage in the garden shall thus live forever!”
T-K inc.

produced by: Boring Films
Supported by: AVEK

Ok we have shot the material in Paris 2006, we now have the script ready and we are working on the concept of getting this piece together.
Hopefully if all goes well, there will be two versions a linear version duration 18min and also a version as a spatial installation (loop) with props.
Stayed tuned Synopsis to follow soon….

We are currently working on getting this long overdue part 2 of SceneSetting ready for screening. We now have the synopsis online for your viewing.

Update: we completed SceneSetting II, now working on the 3rd part

We are pleased to announce that we took part in the “Second International Festival of the Independent Cinema” “KinoLev-2007”, Museum of Art, Ukraine. Thank you to AVEK once again for your support