(VIDEO) GAMES
Multi-channel video instalation (2008-2009)
Collaboration with Donna Conlon

 
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(Video) Game #5 / (Video) Game #6 (extract) / (Video) Game #7 (dyptich)
 
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(Video) Games is a series of games we invented and recorded on video. Each (video) game relies on its own logic to comment on problematic issues which gravitate around the interstices between what is local and universal, personal and collective. The chips and boards are objects recovered from the ruins of houses demolished in Panama City, which is currently suffering the effects of a construction boom, fueled by rampant real estate speculation. This frenzied metamorphasis, which many consider symptomatic of “modernization”, is obliterating the city’s architectural history and eating away at the collective memory of its inhabitants. The level of destruction of older buildings and houses (almost antiseptic in nature) is characterized by an absolute disregard for their aesthetic value. The end result will be a new city, souless and vertical.
Donna Conlon / Jonathan Harker, 2009