Notes Part I



Synopsis

In Notes Part I a series of video transmissions have been created using appropriated digital material concerned with contemporary plans for new extreme forms of community and control over the environment.

These 'transmissions' appear to document a series of actions orchestrated by swarm like groups on a mass scale. These groups appear to be driven by extreme notions of existensial risk and a motivation for pure survival beyond all else.

In the first video, We are the above (2008), an unknown group ('the above') outline their plans to appropriate high platforms and then activate a plan for mass flooding. The 'above' embrace the notion of flooding and have followers who are prepared to take whatever action is necessary to 'bring the water'. In the second video, Where we are now, a group outlines plans to capture all birds "and store them securely in places where they can operate freely". And in the final video, We must undo, a group communicate a plan to orchestrate a mass re-wilding.


Notes Part I showed in the Multichannel: Variable Economies screening programme, organised and curated by ArtSway and SCAN in association with Animate Projects in April 2010.

Notes Part I, II and III will be exhibited at Spike Island, Bristol in October 2010. This exhibition is presented in association with Animate Projects and ArtSway. With thanks also to Curator Pavel Vancat and Galerie Klatovy Klenova, Czech Republic for commissioning Notes II.