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Retreat into digital landfill (2022)

Retreat into Digital Landfill is a short video essay derived from the ongoing web-based project, Digital Landfill. Inspired by Byung-Chul Han's "Aesthetic of the Smooth" and Venkatesh Rao's "Domestic Cozy," the project responds to the intense consumer culture around digital images and how that aggression triggers a nihilistic desire to remain inactive. As an artist, I am constantly lured to perform as productive members of this endless cycle of overproduction and overconsumption on social media. Turning curiosity-driven/ self-reflective art practice into audience-driven performances. Therefore, this video expresses concern around my own complicity within the image culture and a desire to retreat into a discarded space. Perhaps, there is creative potential behind the quietness and messiness. ​
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  • About me
  • Performative Digital Bodies
  • Digital Landfill
  • A Modern Flaneur's Possessions
  • Ctrl + collective
  • Red Millennial Apple: The Rough and The Smooth Image
    • Google, Show Me the Colors (2017-)
    • CUBES (2018-2019)
    • The Reflection Between the Real and the Fake (2019)
    • Format (2019)
    • WHAT ILLUMINATES THE CITY? (2019)
  • Home