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A Space Formerly Known
as a Museum
The Rise
xoo - ex ovo omnia
Toute la mémoire du monde
-273,15ºC = 0 Kelvin
Palast der Republik
L'Avventura senza fine
All roads lead to Rome
10 sec. thinking about the future
Phantom Clubs
Millenniumania
Aura Research
Be Supernatural
 


Spelling Dystopia,
HD,16:9, 2 channel video installation, colour, stereo,17:25 min.
(movie excerpt, 1:56 min.)

Spelling Dystopia,
production still
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The island Hashima has been an important location for Japanese coal-mining. From 1974 Hashima was abandoned because the resources were exploited. Today the island is uninhabited and has since taken on a ghostly, mythic status in the national imagination, aided by its appearance in Battle Royale, a Science FIction-Blockbuster in 2000. Spelling Dystopia asks how memory operates, how a site wears its history, both physically and metaphorically. We revisited the island for our film and photo project in 2008 / 2009.
     

Read more: text by Jelle Bouwhuis, 2009 / text by the artists 2009