IN THE DREAM OF THE PLANET

2002
Digital Video, 7 min 40 sec
Installation: dimensions variable


In the Dream of the Planet is a result of looking at how the media has presented information to the public about nuclear arms and nuclear war since the cold war period.

In this work, I appropriate the made for TV movie "The Day After" (1983) in its entirety, and condense the film down to 56 seconds. I repeat these 56 seconds 6 times, and in each repetition edit into the movie to convey themes that mirror research done on the history of nuclear arms. These themes include a focus on human relationships, the media, the military, and science. The result of the work is both a memory flashback sensation created in the viewer, and an instantaneous virtual experience of the world being destroyed.





Featured at:
• Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
• National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
• La Sala Naranja, Valencia, Spain
• Pace University Digital Gallery, New York, NY
• Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
• Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany
• Exit Art, New York



IntheDream
 
 
inthedream1inthedream2inthedream3
 
CXV © 2000-2011 all rights reserved