198021 - FIVE ATTEMPTS TO REAPPROPRIATE THE CENSOR ︎
In 198021, the censor became the leitmotif. Five depictions of a dystopian environment convey the manipulative power of the censor as it is reappropriated by three performers. Utopic imagery and the irony of alternative facts, alongside the intentional censoring of bodies and the destortion of text occurs in a monochromatic space, mirroring the stark ‘post-truth’ reality of digitalism in the 21st century. Here, George Orwell’s ‘1984’ is re-interpreted and retrofitted in a present day context, highlighting the parallels between fictional projections of the future, and their uncanny reality.
“I’d like to declare a truce. What’s a truce? It’s when you agree to stop fighting. Have we been fighting? Yes, just now, down there on the plastic mat. We weren’t fighting, we were playing ‘Twister’. Are you sure we weren’t fighting? Yes. Twister is a game. A fighting game? No, just an ordinary game.”
2021 A project by Madison Pomarico & Daniel Conant in collaboration with Tasha Hess-Nuestadt