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Narrative Devices / Babak Radboy and DIS.
- Format:
- Video
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism.
- Mass media and technology.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- online resource (1 video file (3 min, 13 sec.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- New York : DIS.ART, 2016.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Prompts of a far too real present, Narrative Devices by DIS and Babak Radboy reflects the "post-contemporary" : "the future as familiar, predictable, immutable, a simulacrum of the past. It is the present that is unknowable, unpredictable and incomprehensible. In a post-Trump, post-truth, "alternative facts" reality, Narrative Devices suggests fantasy is more influential and effective than reality. The four videos, each a mini "narrative device", marks a passage of conceptual and critical thinking: be it the relationship between the government and the governed or the producer and the consumer. A man relieves himself on a public street during the day while scrolling through today's news. A young woman wearing a cable knit sweater texts on her phone, imagining a world where no one reads. All are rendered in a sickly corporate aesthetic reminiscent of an advertisement proclaiming unbounded opportunity." --DIS.ART
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