Event overview
Supported by Intel and the Economic and Social Research Council
Jackie Orr, Maxwell School, Syracuse University (with digital artist Dovar Chen).
Respondent: Michael Guggenheim, Goldsmiths.
Chair: Nina Wakeford, Goldsmiths.
Slow Disaster at the Digital Edge is a live 40 minute digital performance that assembles together the ‘deep time’ of petro-capitalist fossil fuel extraction, with the slow catastrophe of ordinary time and its exhaustion through everyday practices of repetition, accumulation, and disposability.
Situated in the image archives of the BP oil disaster in spring 2010 and the serial documentation of plastic bags wrapped in tree branches, the piece swerves away from disaster-as-event toward the slow burn of repetitious wasting and sedimented oblivion.
Drawing on the occult theory recently conjured by Eugene Thacker, Slow Disaster tries to think with oil, a non-human thought compressed in the interstices.
The performance constructs a series of five digital formats, each attuned differently to the re-distributions of image, body, disaster, time—and performance itself—rendered through the binary plasticities of digital media.
Presented by Kat Jungnickel for Transmissions and Entanglements
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Jun 2014 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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