| EPISODE 9: SET WITHOUT SUBJECT || A.2: EROS, ALWAYS ALREADY |

Film Essay

Set without Subject reframes the classical tradition of still life by shifting attention away from the human figure and placing emphasis on the presence and arrangement of objects. Rather than engaging with figurative representation, the work subtly displaces narrative expectations, drawing the viewer into a focused contemplation of form, texture, and spatial relationships. It operates as a mise-en-scène without actors—a constructed environment suggestive of human presence, yet marked by its absence—like a stage awaiting a performance that never arrives. In this context, objects are not merely depicted but elevated, inviting consideration of their visual and symbolic resonance. The composition resists storytelling in a traditional sense, instead proposing that meaning can emerge through the careful orchestration of material, light, and space. By revisiting and reconfiguring the still life genre, Set without Subject explores how inanimate forms continue to communicate and assert presence within the visual field, offering a quiet but potent reflection on contemporary image-making and material culture.

Act

Act 3: Eros, Always Already | Agile Cinema® operates as a reflexive apparatus within contemporary media praxis, staging intimate engagements with its interlocutors—artists, curators, actors, scholars, executive creatives, chefs, musicians, collectors, poets, and filmmakers—not merely as subjects, but as co-producers in a durational and participatory aesthetic encounter. This mode of ‘agile’ production reconfigures traditional hierarchies of authorship and spectatorship, producing what might be termed participatory media, in which the lines between creation and reception are deliberately blurred. Situated within a dramaturgy of metalepsis and fourth-wall rupture, the project embraces a performative destabilization of narrative boundaries. Drawing on the traditions of collage, montage, and theatrical assemblage, Eros, Always Already stages a hybridized cultural space where public and private, fiction and documentary, converge. It is a gesture of aesthetic and affective entanglement—a dramaturgical act of love—that treats the creative process not merely as content generation, but as relational poiesis in a shared field of becoming.

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Double-Sided Collages | 4 x 4″ | 8 x 8" | 20 x 20" | 36 x 36"

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