Based On & Maintained By Illusion

Artists: James Stephen Wright.

Curator: Andrea Domesle, Videocity.

Thanks to cooperation partner: Résidence d’artistes Chalet Erika Beatenberg.

A three part video intervention that takes a Robert Walser-esque walk through Beatenberg and appreciating what has become the ordinary whilst documenting the human & non-human interaction with what is dubbed as “Nature” by humans.

The natural-ness of nature we curate around us, declaring what it is and is not is a funny business that we are all contributers. Similar to the arguement of what is and is not art, where you could come to the conclusion that everything is nature, if this is the case then is everything ordinary? I took three long walks through Beatenberg known as one of the best vantage points set against the Bernese Alps and affords a view of deeply blue Lake Thun – i.e. it’s natural beauty. Capturing “small gods in all things” – walking through and capturing a nature of today’s Beatenberg not the dragon, monk, hermit and UFO infested Beatenberg of the past. I am confronted by drones, a human made of bakery treats, planes, bins decorated with frescos of nature and lots of people cutting grass.