VIDEO
2112 Imagining the Future
What will the world look like 100 years from today?
TEXT ON SCREEN: 2112 Imaging the future. RMIT Gallery is featuring work from international and Australian artists that asks the question: “What will the world look like 100 years from today?” 2 December 2011 - 28 January 2012.
VISUAL: of artwork: Kenji Yanobe’s Atom Suit Project. Antenna of the Earth, 2001.
AUDIO: Kenji Yanobe speaking through a translator.
VOICEOVER: This work is titled Antenna of the Earth from the Atom Suit Project.
VOICEOVER: I wear a protective suit for radioactivity and I have been to Chernobyl in this suit 14 years ago. Ten years ago I made this work here and I feel that after the recent events in Fukushima with the number one nuclear reactor that this work takes on a new form of reality and I would really enjoy if you could come and see this work.
VISUAL: Yanobe’s artwork.
VISUAL: Artwork of Patricia Piccinini. Game Boys Advanced from the series We Are Family, 2002. Two kids mannequin leaning on the wall playing with a handheld video game.
VISUAL: Artwork of Lyndal Osborne. Ab Ove, 2008. Jars in shelfs with various with stuff of different shape in them.
VISUAL: Female handling objects inside a glass box through silicone gloves.
VISUAL: Artwork of Tony Lloyd. Why DO We Remember the Past and Not the Future?, 2010.
VISUAL: Artwork of Stephen Haley. One Second (All Together, 2010.
VISUAL: Artwork of Sam Leach. The Paradox of Prediction, 2009.
VISUAL: Artwork of Sam Leach. We Have Never Been Modern, 2011.
VISUAL: Artwork of Mariko Mori. Miko No Inori, 1996.
VISUAL: Artwork of Hisaharu Motoda. Indication-Opera House (Sydney), 2010.
VISUAL: Artwork of Hisaharu Motoda. Indication-Shibuya Center Town, 2005.
VISUAL: Artwork of Ken + Julia Yonetani. Still Life - The Food Bowl, 2011.
VISUAL: Artwork of Roman Signer. Wasserstiefel, 1986.
VISUAL: Artwork of Philip Samartzis, Isolation, 2011.
AUDIO: Kenji Yanobe speaking through a translator.
VOICEOVER: Don’t over think it. Just feel it with your heart.
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