Uncontrollability or Paranoid Production and Perception …or You’re So Paranoid You Probably Think This Project Is About Me.

Why would it be easier to produce three convincing projects under false narratives than manifest a single project based on actual conviction? Self-declared “paranoid practitioner” Maren Bang depicts an undefinable, rootless and paranoid field shaped by inferiority complexes that use intellectual, wordy, complicated criticality in an attempt to make itself appear relevant and important. The fake projects are based on previously successful graduation projects and evaluated on the institution’s shadow standards. Through this performative deconstruction, the project demonstrates how following the recommendations of criticality and self-reflexivity only reproduces the systems being critiqued. Is it easier to dismiss the project as cynical than recognize it’s about you?