Video work, official selection ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival
3D animation, binaural recordings, text to speech, 2 channel stereo
Welcome to the Temple of Excitation and Exhaustion. A piece shown at ADAF 2020 Festival.
Here, you will wander, experience accumulated whispered and resonant chants of speech captured over many centuries from the Humboldtian’s and the Syntaxian’s. Both realms had/have adventurous and daring visionaries with devoted disciples. Messages are emitted from the altar, like a Tribal/Corporate leader, they blur and dissolve into excited and exhausted versions of themselves, rendering what meaning they had in their original context, impotent. At times a symbol is presented that does not explain but confuses. In our current times there is a delirious thirst for digital technology platforms as we are groomed for technological solutions made possible through Data- science, where language is used as a tool to hide behind much like the Scientific community of another era.
We will leave it up to the viewer to decide what is timeworn and what is contemporary.
The phenomena of ‘Excitation and Exhaustion’ is a term coined by Political Theorist Jodi Dean.
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