Everything could be so much better!

Everything could be so much better!
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Everything could be so much better!
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Everything could be so much better!
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Everything could be so much better!
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With this work Elke Reinhuber is imagining a world in which only robots are extant. They are continuously repeating the phrases which they learned while humans were only wondering how our planet could be saved.
The immersive installation lures the viewer to an era post-Anthropocene, in which humanity has long been extinct. All that remains are robots sitting in front of the last broken media walls and repeating like a sermon the same phrases which they recorded when mankind pondered upon actions to carry out in order to save our earth.
There are pictures to perceive, as we know them from the media: cruel, violent, depressing images; images with which we as the peripheral spectator have long come to terms.
The beautiful coloured image with little depth of field, impressive details, as we know it today from most video installations, was deliberately destroyed. The flickering and shimmering broken screens and video signals are disturbed for the captivating aesthetic component. The scope between cognition and presentiments of the pictures shown evoke own experiences, fears and desires.
The audio component penetrates even deeper. The synthetic voices of robots appear almost hypnotic and lulling the viewer with their repetitive phrases. The canon of good intentions penetrates in its entirety into the subconscious, even though the individual proclamations can only be understood when being near to one of the speakers.