Bliss
2001
interactive video
Made at the Villa Médicis in Rome, Bliss is about the quest for collective happiness. The interactive format allows viewers to wander freely through a selection of video sequences, each of which features two idle characters.The navigation is accompanied by a voice-off (see text hereinafter) describing an ideal society founded on a multitude of abolitions: servitude, private ownership, religion, work, and family, etc. Bliss prefigures the collaborative encyclopedia abolitions.net