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Anathema

2011

Video Installation by the Otolith Group

Credits: Original Music and Sound Design


Anathema reimagines the microscopic behaviour of liquid crystals undergoing turbulence as a sentient entity that possesses the fingertips and the eyes enthralled by the LCD touch-screens of communicative capitalism.  Anathema can be understood as an object-oriented video that isolates and recombines the magical gestures of dream factory capitalism.  By bringing the telecommunicating couplings of mother-father-daughter-son-machines and boyfriend-girlfriend-unites into contact with the conductive imagery of liquid crystallisation, Anathema proposes itself as a prototype for a counter-spell assembled from the possible worlds of capitalist sorcery.

Still from “Anathema” by The Otolith Group
Still from “Anathema” by The Otolith Group
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