The Day After, Tomorrow, 2012
Dave Dyment – Toronto, Canada
Video Installation
This installation was in zone C and has a wall of
video monitors that were playing video clips of earthquakes, fires, floods,
meteors, air attacks and other doomsday scenarios.
The installation was placed in a rather closed
space without light sources other than the lights from the monitors. The space
made all the audiences staring at the monitors and watch the video clips about
the doomsday. The monitors have different scenes of doomsday at the same time,
which made the audience feel like they are watching a world-wide news that is
showing the disasters around the world. On the other hand, the video clip
itself is also well-thoughtful. It contains the destroying of landmark buildings.
As the introduction of the work said, the video clips are not arranged randomly
however geographically. By arranging the video clips geographic, this
installation can bring a more realistic feeling about the doomsday by letting
the viewers feel that all the landmarks, places that they are familiar with are
all involved in the doomsday: they are all destroyed by different causes.
The video clips and the whole installation with the
dark closed space brought the viewers a feeling that facing the doomsday, we
have nowhere to run, everyplace we know about is destroyed by different reason,
which brings the viewer a feeling of frustration facing the doomsday. What I
think this video installation is talking about is that human beings, although
considered themselves as the most intelligence creatures on Earth, while facing
the power of nature or the universe, human beings are still so small and fragile.
If there is such a doomsday, what we need to do is to enrich our everyday life
and be thankful of what we have today.
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