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Deep Interview represents a conversational situation : not based on identities, but comparing different language systems. The subject of the conversation is going to emerge due to asking questions taken from two different (complementary) contexts: the one mirroring the systemic "need" for monitoring the need for a picture of the EU borders, the other focussing on corresponding unmonitored substances, the needs and perspectives of asylum seekers. The origin of the video is the plot of a performance based on asking questions and dedicated to practices of (machine-like) monitoring. The origin of the performance plot is a particular text technique suitable technique for unpleasant objects of investigation, which treats them as very literally. Of the so-called deep interview we only experience the questions. On a more abstract, level Deep Interview enbodies the desire to treat (and deconstruct) the law and its both argumentative and operational logic as an image, shaped in order to define phenomena and entities to be managed.

Part of the artistic production methods of the media artist Susanna Schoenberg are experimental videos and video installations, public actions and camera setups. Her media practise focuses on the idea of emergence (of reality and forms of reality), intermediality and the techno-image. The contingent waiving of technical and conceptual control can be part of her "realistic" (image giving) strategy. In the last years she has been producing works explicitly dedicated to (machine-like) monitoring, in particular of the monitoring of the European borders.