The Replacement Project

Because visual artist Karina Beumer has a writer’s block, she posts a vacancy for a replacement for herself. She wonders if she has a personality without her profession. Could someone else fill in her personality? 63 people apply and a selection of 17 receive an individual audition assignment. Karina finds out that the applicants had different motives for applying: They want to escape themselves by embodying someone else. Do you dare more in someone else’s shoes? The roles are slowly shifting. Karina slowly learns that she needs to give up not only her email password and studio, but her entire identity, her lover, friends and family for the project to succeed. Will she literally disappear in her work? What started as a playful action turns into an existential search for taking up space in work and life.