For the exhibition project Localisms I made a presentation of the ongoing research project Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Together with designer Julie Peeters we made a selection of images for an associative wall piece and we made a poster with the categories of this part of the archive. On the wall there are images from several categories and on the poster these are underlined.
During this exhibition there will be images added twice. Once (in May) images from the surrounding area of the Museum and once of new images I took during the exhibition period in other locations. The pocket of Gestures was presented alongside the installation to give insight in the archive as a whole. In July the new website of the archive of Theatrum orbis Terrarum in total will be added to the exhibition.
Observations by Marjolijn Dijkman
Design Julie Peeters, edition of 500
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Wondering around... Postcard A5 (edition 1250)
Thanks to: Eva Moulaert, Savage
Wandering through the Future
Besides this photograhic presentation I present the 60 min. videowork Wandering through the Future. A printed timeline of the future with collected taglines and dates of major film productions, forms the basis for a video collage. This film Wandering through the Future consists of fragments of 70 film productions from all over the world. Passing all sorts of apocalyptic landscapes and scenarios, the one-hour video leads you through the future from 2008 until 802.701 A.D. in order of appearance. The film tries to examine the way the Future has been given shape and how the different scenarios relate to eachother. Worst-case scenarios with for instance natural disasters, utopian and dystopian cities, virusses, clones and habitats on other planets give insights in the fear for one of our main exploration still to come.
Download timeline English / Arabic
Wandering through the Future text written by Sabine Hillen (2007)
