GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE looks at online subcultures that perform an anti-egalitarian politics through endorsing a technologically accelerated view of the world. Their curious entanglement with literary genres like science fiction and horror, while also displaying an anxiety about the imagined decline of Western civilization, forms the central system of the project.

What emerges is an anomalous crash site of philosophy itself, where cyberpunk ruins and imperial nostalgia arrange themselves into a prismatic history full of memory errors, discognitions, and techno-utopian fantasies. Glinting through this conceptual wreckage is a peculiar anti-egalitarian map of time that exposes the strange historical complicity between technological fictions and anti-rationalist ideas in the public sphere. In the course of this history appear lost faces, defiled statues, demonic cats, and pestilential affect-objects.

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Produced by Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst as part of Stiftung Niedersachsen Media Art Grants.

HD Video, 26 minutes | 2022