Orr Menirom discussed her two-channel video installation Clinton and Sanders Looking at the World and Naming Things for the First Time (2017), based on a 2016 debate between the Democratic presidential candidates in the US. In the video, visuals from the debate are replaced with footage shot by Menirom of plants, animals and, other natural phenomena, and select words from the politicians' speeches are used to describe these images. Reflecting on the relationship between media, memory, perception, and language as a political instrument, Menirom turns the debate into an abstract landscape, or Rorschach test, onto which viewers project their own thoughts and associations.

Presented as part of Artis’ emerging artists talks series.