Digital Media and Vertical Freefall
“…This pervasive fantasy of disembodiment is linked to the fantasy of mastery at a distance, of ’tele-presence,’ the illusion of being able to leave the body at will and reappear elsewhere, to be present while not really present…”
Inferno 2020
Hotwheelz Festival: Gothwerk
“The virtual, like the dead, can go anywhere. The virtual is a mixed form, a volatile and/or because it is simultaneously nothing and something else. It moves around the planet as bodilessly as light and it moves around the planet fatally poisoning bodies with violence, heat and toxic metals.”
“For this failure and no other/Here we are lost, and our /sole punishment /is without hope to live on /in desire”
“Falling means ruin and demise as well as love and abandon. Passion and surrender. Decline and catastrophe. Falling is corruption as well as liberation. A condition that turns people into things and vice versa . It takes place in an opening we could endure or enjoy, embrace or suffer, or simply accept as reality”