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Video Collage made from Found Footage Material of UFOs.
Copan Building. Sao Paolo. 2004.
video format AVI. length: 7min.
Music by ATKINS & LEVINE (Sing Along With JFK)

This is a video collage made from found footage material of UFOs.
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From the 25th floor of Copan Building in Sao Paolo, I had a strange feeling of the presence of supernatural phenomena. The urbanism with its constructions of modern architecture made a mysterious impression to me. It doesn't have this clear structure other modern cities do.

Yuji's Alliance for Progress Bossa Nova

Occasionally, however, our wild imaginations rope in the real world too. We are taken over not just by subtle, half-conscious dreamy sensations, but by actual visual phenomena witnessed in a fully waking state. Yuji Oshima attributes a “strange feeling of the presence of supernatural phenomena” from the 25th floor of a building in Sao Paolo as the mysterious precursor to this video collage made from found footage material of UFOs. How often is seeing an act of will? How do the questions we ask determine what we will see? What does art want from the supernatural?

Frank O'Toole, Yuji Oshima, Eric Baudart

One of the important concepts for semi-essentialism is that of second nature. Human beings have second nature. It's the nature we make for ourselves versus the nature we’re given. The structures of social life are the structures of human nature. But second nature isn't always easy to acquire. It's an achievement.

The works of Frank, Yuji, and Eric explore the ways in which the process of naturalizing our own cultural products can sometimes create weird after-effects. The process of achieving second nature sometimes gets stuck in overdrive and can’t turn itself off.