Survival’s Logic, Gabriela Golder
WHAT REMAINS + TOTAL WAR
Friday May 28, 7:00pm, 120min
War has become our normative reality and crisis the essential tool of Empire. Has the mediated image lived up to its potential for transposing stakes and claims, or for confronting our shared subjection? If not, is exposing its own failure media’s only critical tool left? Faced with a skeptical forecast for technology’s ontology, how are we to respond? How do we acknowledge censorship, revisionism, and erasure?
The entropic barrage of western newscasting is sculpted into a mutant body of noise by Tijmen Hauer. Found news footage and Hollywood detritus are further culled by Gabriela Golder to reveal the hidden dance of crisis and Peter Eramian to materialize the worldwide haunting of the ghosts of 9/11. Wrapped up in the CIA’s own play list, monoculture and war are recomposed by Mitchell Akiyama. The aesthetics of censorship are shared by Yi Xin Tong and Anahita Razmi, and excavated by Francisca Duran in her treatise on the cubist dislocation of Chile’s revolutionary and authoritarian history. Lance Olsen quietly decodes the alien communique masked by Orson Welles infamous broadcast, contrasted by an explosion of nationalist icons in Max Hattler’s animation that asks us “which side are we on”.
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In his epic and brutal assemblage, Jubal Brown warps the cultural war being waged by the industrial media complex. As higher rates of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder suggest, the numbing distance of remote killing cuts deeper into our psyche when it no longer reaches our bodies. Total War transforms dislocated and hallucinatory images of combat, mortality and terror into a raving disco infernal that no one escapes untouched.
Tijmen Hauer, Talking Heads | 2009 | 5min | DV | Netherlands
Yi Xin Tong, Youth | 2009 | 5min | DV | Canada
Anahita Razmi, White Wall Tehran | 2007 | 1min | DV | Germany/ Iran
Francisca Duran, Retrato Official | 2009 | 4min | DV | Canada
Peter Eramian, Fantasia | 2008/09 | 6min | DV | Cyprus/ UK
Gabriela Golder, Survival’s Logic | 2008 | 5min | DV | Argentina
Lance Olsen, War of the Well(e)s | 2010 | 20min | Sound Performance | Canada
Peter Eramian, Utopia | 2008/09 | 2min | DV | Cyprus/ UK
Mitchell Akiyama, Torture | 2010 | 3min | Sound Immersion | Canada
Max Hattler, Collision | 2005 | 3min | Animation | UK
Intermission | 30min
8:30pm
Jubal Brown, Total War | 2010 | 50min | DV | Canada
WARNING:contains graphic violence and prolonged stroboscopic editing*
