Cold-Case-Titan-Homage-2-Baudrillard 2012
QuickTime animation, HD, colour, sound
Duration: 6”
The notion of object vanishes just as “matter”, in the ultimate analysis,
Vanishes on the horizon of Microphysics.
(Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities.)
QuickTime animation, HD, colour, sound
Duration: 6”
The notion of object vanishes just as “matter”, in the ultimate analysis,
Vanishes on the horizon of Microphysics.
(Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities.)
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The work presents an animated, posthumous portrait of the late social theorist and philosopher. Baudrillard's evocation in the form of a virtual figurehead is seen floating in space whilst playfully encountering various objects, from asteroids to fullerenes and Saturn with its system of rings. Deep space appears populated by molecular and crystalized ‘matter’ that orbits in Saturn’s magnetosphere. Motivated by his musings on the loss of the social in contemporary capitalist culture intergalactic space here is punctuated by fanciful imaginary Baudrillarian hyper-neologisms.
The title refers to NASA’s discovery of a cryogenic crater found on Titan, Saturn largest moon. Just as the latest technology of Cryogenics aims to preserve life the indication of water on Titan might herald a potential for future life forms. Here, Baudrillard’s amused semblance drifting happily through outer space signals a not too distant future in which a hyper-global, hyper-capitalist and hyper-techno saturated vortex of interminable commercial forces is aided by the invention of an expedient pseudo-language. |
“As the intratransgressible core of the corporatized striatum spawns the intramundane osmosis of high capitalism the sensomemory of plasmodial spasms coagulates in a convulsive mass of molecular cells interfacing with an infinitely transmutant technosphere that free-floats around an invisible orbital nuclei. Converging capitalized forces gel into a protozoan mass emitting rays of mythosimulacral egoidolatory assisting tissue transmutations vibrating in a cloud of immunomania outputting catabolic paroxisms and neurocellular spasms engendering molecular atrophy.”
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