User:Aitantv/AvP
Synopsis
Environmental speeches and sci-fi monologues merge into a single speech made by an Alien-Lizard President. AvP intercuts this fantasy monologue with found footage of environmental catastophe, apocalyptia gameplay, and original footage of derelict landscapes and spaces.
Critiques
- I'm constructing artifice and removing myself from reality, in a safe predictable, 'conceptual', sci-fi space. It's so removed from the real it fails to deal with socio-cultural matter.
- This project puts me in a strait-jacket, captured by performativity. I'm faking it, in a way that I find uninteresting. It's like a masked cabaret. Life is not a masquerade. There's subterrain beneath the surface of appearances, representations. How to go beyond representation in a visual medium? How to get to actuality?
- I feel my practice should just be an extension of my life, not an appendage. It should slow naturally from my lived reality instead of being an appendage. Now it is a balloon I constantly have to inflate lest it deflates and becomes a limp sack.
- This is a chance to play with Arthur Jafa's idea of Affective Proximity, where certain things seek to be next to other things...."It's a kind of ordering or things emerging and demanding to be themselves. It's as if there's a latent potentiality in things."
Research
- Why do people believe the lizard theory?
- Why are the same people likely to disbelieve climate change?
- In what ways is capitalism ingesting climate change? How is it morphing to make it a part?
- Climate change and migration are the two most significant political subjects at present. How do the two themes intersect?