Single channel 4K video. 7:18 min. 2023.
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Slumpy Glump Dreams: A Head Imagined presents us with a mythical origin story for digital culture.
Filmed in the first person, it tells of today’s digital world being pulled from the mud by an ancient individual – whose visions millennia ago having sowed the seed of contemporary digital culture. This is an absurd unverified retelling of the birth of digital society.
We see through the eyes of a Mesolithic oracle – The Mind – as they attempt to make sense of their visions. We hear and see transcribed their internal monologue as they comprehend the psychology of a future digital society uncoupling from materiality.
Mimicking a social media live stream, we see their compulsive attempts to make clay representations of us – heads that are non-anatomical interpretations of our psyches. Their compulsion mirroring the UX dopamine loops of our attention economy.
Filmed in 4K digital video at Oldbury rock shelters, Ightham, Kent, 2023.
This work builds upon the themes in Thurlow Man.
Exhibitions:
Once Upon a Time, HilbertRaum, Berlin, DE. 2023.
Marsuppium, ASC Gallery, London, UK. 2023.
Photography by Steven Dickie.