// What can be seen in your video? //
Three storylines running side-by-side show me in seemingly everyday office situations: with an open laptop on the table, reading a text with a concentrated expression, standing in front of the desk. Only on closer inspection does it become clear that other forces are at work here, that the floor shown is actually a wall, and that the person supposedly sitting or standing is instead acting from the floor in a lying position.

// All too familiar scenes in the current lockdown, in which numerous employees are forced into the isolation of the home office. So is this about Corona-art dealing with the constraints and crushing burden of lockdown in the pandemic? //
No, the video was made back in 2014. It's about forces that affect us without us being able to influence them directly. Climate change, migration, digitalization, they are simply there as a condition. When we read a book, we consciously expose ourselves to linguistic forces. Next to the sex drive, gravity is perhaps the most effective and enigmatic, unconditional force. Gravity cannot be eliminated. But one can deal with it, apparently annul it. I use gravity in the video as an artistic visual strategy to explore possibilities of invalidating forces.

// What does this mean and how does it become apparent in relation to the current situation? //
I call such forces "affectless", because they act on us without passion. This is the general core of the video, which can be interpreted as a symbol of our slapstick way of dealing with the virus and the restrictions imposed on us. Like Buster Keaton, we perform the most ornamental contortions with a serious face.//

// Is this how the video relates to the title? //
Yes. The title refers to the French sociologist Gabriel Tarde who explained economy as the science of passionate interests. The video attempts reflecting his thesis into an anti-economy—while reading Tarde.