'Take A Picture' is created in collaboration with my mother during the Covid-19 lockdown in India. We were simulating travel to her 'dream destinations' using Zoom's virtual background feature to merge archives & google street view within a virtual space based on itineraries from her travel agency. The work comments on the tourism industry and the subsequent distortion of our perception of reality.
The hyper-connectedness of our contemporary existence is, as Jean Baudrillard would describe, alienating. Particularly in the year of the pandemic, technology & the Internet have become our windows to the world as we are further plunged into indeterminacy, witnessing the death of our norms.
In ‘Take a Picture’, the broken simulations & distorted satellite images create a tear in the fabric, facilitating collisions in time and deterritorialized experience. It is on one level a performance and on another level a documentation, both of our predicament and of our present stage of technology.
'Take A Picture' is created in collaboration with my mother during the Covid-19 lockdown in India. We were simulating travel to her 'dream destinations' using Zoom's virtual background feature to merge archives & google street view within a virtual space based on itineraries from her travel agency. The work comments on the tourism industry and the subsequent distortion of our perception of reality.
The hyper-connectedness of our contemporary existence is, as Jean Baudrillard would describe, alienating. Particularly in the year of the pandemic, technology & the Internet have become our windows to the world as we are further plunged into indeterminacy, witnessing the death of our norms.
In ‘Take a Picture’, the broken simulations & distorted satellite images create a tear in the fabric, facilitating collisions in time and deterritorialized experience. It is on one level a performance and on another level a documentation, both of our predicament and of our present stage of technology.
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