- In the spring of 2011, during the Photomonth in Krakow, the artist collective Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin invited Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez to be part of ALIAS, an exhibition that asked artists to inhabit alternate personas and then create artworks as this non-existent third-person. This resulted in an exhibition of which none of the artists existed, as the fictional characters had taken over the creative process. Grimonprez was assigned to inhabit the renowned Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa wrote much of his oeuvre under multiple, alternative identities. Not so much pseudonyms or aliases but what he termed 'heteronyms' - invented personalities with detailed biographies and interweaving histories. Pessoa's 'The Book of Disquiet' became Grimonprez' the point of departure. All the film's footage was shot on iPhone, recapturing selected details from YouTube's endless growing archive, a world where 'heteronyms' abound. Images of the earthquake and the tsunami that had hit Japan in March that year, dominated the net. This resonated quietly with the world of disquiet Grimonprez was envisioning. In addition, Grimonprez invited Portuguese writer Isabel Sobral Campos to add a female voice to Pessoa's many male heteronyms while staying true to the original language of 'The Book of Disquiet'.—Zapomatik
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