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Post Global Warming Survival Kit

Country: 
bg
Year: 
2008

This interactive multimedia installation consists of a two-channel projection and shows infrared images of the North Sea as a post-apocalyptic landscape that the observer can only see by using a night-vision device. Dourmana portrays a dystopian scenario: a "nuclear winter" initiated by political groups or governments in order to solve the problem of global warming and the melting of the polar icecaps.
The installation aims to be a believable, technological fiction of a future in which human sensory experience has adapted. Without the technology posited within the Post Global Warming Survival Kit, we would be blind. With this in mind, the project asks us to consider our approach to environmental pollution and ecological destruction. dourmana.com

Events: 
Wed, 28.1.2009 - 12:00
K1
Sat, 31.1.2009 - 20:00
Auditorium
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