„men and women merely players“ (2024) shows masked Lucha Libre fighters in their entry poses and victory poses, as well as partly in other actions. The video focuses on assumed individuality, fabricated identity, and the interaction of the audience/mass with their performative counterparts.

The title „men and women merely players“ derives from Shakespeare‘s monologue „All the world‘s a stage“ of the comedy „As you like it. “ Shakespeare compares human life to a play and the world to a stage. Furthermore, he addresses the futility of human existence since, in his opinion, every human being is only part of a larger plan that is not apparent to him

„All the world‘s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts, (…).”

 The video starts with audio of the human voice in all its full expressive nature. The use of the voice is understood both as a primary vehicle of immediate individual emotional expression, and as the dissolution of those individuals in an acoustic mass soul.

The masked performers in the video are in tandem with the created and compiled sound pool. Very intimate recordings of overtone chants or ASMR recordings stand in contrast to found footage audio of protest calls of the Black Lives Matters movement or chants at Trump Supporter Rallies.