27/07/10
At the opera "Tomorrow, In a Year" based on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution with music written by the Knife, Mt.Sims and Planningtorock, at the Barbican.
Untitled from Wenxin Liu on Vimeo.
"Imagology is stronger than reality, which has anyway long ceased to be what it was for my grandmother, who lived in a Moravian village and still knew everything through her own experience: how bread is baked, how a house is built, how a pig is slaughtered and the meat smoked, what quilts are made of, what the priest and the schoolteacher think about the world; she met the whole village every day and knew how many murders were committed in the country over the last ten years; she had, so to speak, personal control over reality, and nobody could fool her by maintaining that Moravian agriculture was thriving when people at home had nothing to eat. My Paris neighbour spends his time in an office, where he sits for eight hours facing an office colleague, then he sits in his car and drives home, turns on the TV and when the announcer informs him that in the latest public opinion poll the majority of Frenchmen voted their country the safest in Europe [...], he is overjoyed and opens a bottle of champagne without ever learning that three thefts and two murders were committed on his street that very day."
- Milan Kundera, "Immortality"
Stop motion video made from newspaper print and white tack.
