Heydt

 

HEYDT | Arte Laguna PrizeHEYDT
New York City, United States 1986


One hundred seconds to midnight

Art section: Video Art

Dimensions: Variables

Year: 2020

Materials: Found footage, scratch film, direct animation

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Description

The edge is closer than we think, but illusion won’t free us from reality, even as the sustained narrative of tabloids becomes history and the myth of progress continues to perpetuate inequality. Globalization has moved forward unevenly and no-one can say where this “New Frontier” is leading us. As the natural world is liquidated and substituted with an artificial one, the social landscape becomes increasingly fractured and alienated. No longer in focus, all grand narratives dissipate in the space of post-history, as technological dependency diminishes the tangibility of our experiences. The medium has swallowed the message.

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