GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE
HD Video with single and four-channel versions. 26 mins. Stereo. 2022.Produced by Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst in the context of their Media Art Grant.
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GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE looks at online subcultures that perform an anti-egalitarian politics through endorsing a technologically accelerated view of the world. Their curious entanglement with literary genres like science fiction and horror - while also displaying an anxiety about the imagined decline of Western civilization - forms the central system of the project.
What emerges is an anomalous crash site of philosophy itself, where online subcultures, cyberpunk ruins and imperial nostalgia arrange themselves into a prismatic history full of memory errors, discognitions and techno-utopian fantasies. Glinting through this conceptual wreckage is a peculiar anti-egalitarian map of time that exposes the strange historical complicity between technological fictions and anti-rationalist ideas in the public sphere. In the course of this history appear lost faces, defiled statues, demonic cats, and pestilential affect-objects.
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4-channel version exhibited at RMIT Melbourne as part of the group show This Hideous Replica, 2024. Installation design by Merve Ertufan.
