2023
Future Gore is an ironic reflection on the utopian body and conscience of the post-human, a new Frankenstein wandering through the ruins of human civilization. Through this pseudo-political satire on the narcissistic culture of our time, we ask questions about alternative ways of being in these troubled times, when authenticity and uniqueness have become the official currency. Digitalization, the omnipresence of surveillance, and the endless representations of ourselves create an echo chamber—a simulation of reality that appears more real than reality itself. This seemingly immaterial and transcendent space offers immortality in a collapsing world in exchange for our humanity.
SCRIPT FRAGMENT:
It’s a beautiful day out there, only 60% chance of acid rain, just take me by the hand.
Look: observable universe appears to be flat like a pancake. Who doesn't love fried food? And while we are strolling through this multiverse salad bar of possibilities I tend to daydream about my own death, destruction, annihilation and so on and so on and so on and so on. I imagine myself dying in a cosmic traffic jam and melting into the hot, sticky and sweet asphalt of this ghost metropolis.
It is a little game I play. I wish I can reach the point of no return.
Although, by now we know that galaxies will eventually drift so far apart that light from one can never, like, reach another. It is a fact that stars get old and die and there will be time when there's no light and heat left. The universe will be a dark, cold, empty void.
(…)
Do you think you’ll find some aesthetic pleasure in your own extinction?
You always loved watching videos of catastrophes, didn’t you?
(…)
I’ve always had difficulty accepting that your armpits tend to be sweaty. It somehow feels offensive to me.
Do you know that space also has a distinctive metallic aroma? It smells like welding fumes.
CREDITS
Concept and script: Mateusz Staniak
Performance and artictic collaborator: Arne Luiting
Music and sound design: George Dhauw
Light design: Zaza Dupont
Photos: Axel Dangoxhe