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WHITE CITY OF THE FUTURE, 2006
Digital
video, 9 minutes 30 seconds
Edition of 5
In 1951 the Department of Civil Defense in collaboration
with the National Education Association released “Duck
and Cover”, a film highlighting a cartoon character
of a turtle that pulls into its shell when an atomic
flash occurs, and aims to initiate children in an
unthreatening manner into the conversation of how
to protect oneself in the event of nuclear war. Friendly
and lighthearted in tone, the subtext of the film
conveys the idea that everything will be just fine
during a nuclear war if only one is ready--if only
one learns how to duck and cover.
I appropriate this film, and synthesize it with bright
pixilated and flashing animated explosions created
from watercolors I painted of atmospheric nuclear
tests. In tandem, the sonic dimension of the piece
combines nuclear windstorms and thundering explosions
with the original film soundtrack, and clashes these
with jarring audio bleeps and glitches evocative of
alarms and digital artifacts.
The title alludes to fallout and the aesthetic of
a post nuclear world.
Featured
at:
Aqua Art Miami, w/ Lawrimore Project, Seattle
SAM Gallery, Santiago, Chile
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