v3 is a real-time video installation that explores the volatility of lived experience through a dynamic interplay of velocity, variation, and impermanence. Structured around a three-speed motion, the work confronts the viewer with shifting temporal intensities that destabilize conventional perception and invite a rethinking of everyday reality as a fluid, unstable construct.

Drawing from process philosophy, particularly the writings of Alfred North Whitehead and Gilles Deleuze, v3 treats visibility not as a fixed representation but as a continuous discharge—a flow of becoming where form dissolves into transformation. The velocity of change renders the image ephemeral, exposing the fragility of presence and the impossibility of capturing life in static frames.

The installation’s deliberate loss of high-definition clarity, replaced by blurred transitions and degraded projections, reflects the phenomenological truth that perception is always partial, contingent, and shaped by movement. In this way, v3 echoes Maurice Merleau-Ponty's notion of embodied temporality, where the experience of time is not linear but layered, elastic, and affectively charged.

By foregrounding volatility as both aesthetic and existential condition, v3 proposes a poetics of impermanence. It invites viewers to inhabit the instability of the moment, to witness the dissolution of form as a gesture of life itself. The work resists resolution, instead offering a meditative encounter with the fleeting, the unresolved, and the continuously transforming.

v3/2011

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