ESCAPE GAME
2025...
«The Earth will then have become small, and on it will hop the Last Man, who makes all things small.» Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Prologue, 1883) Friedrich Nietzsche
To the rhythmic beat of the closing credits, composed by Hugo Héron, the artist’s son, an electro-noise odyssey of metallic tubes collides with uncertain, dreamlike layers woven from bird sounds and voices from other worlds.
On a beam, a strange animal procession is moving along, the lower limbs of which seem to have been severed by a satellite losing speed.
Jesus walked on water, and Philip K. Dick will remember the future! We’re advancing well! What exactly is AI memory made of? In this way, this ark of Noah’s feet has been frozen in time, its white trail seeming to point towards Mars or the lunar star. These are times of mass migration. The Tech elite are playing the «escape game» and everyone is looking out for themselves!
And you? Will you dare to step into this capsule, where only the hybrid traces of human bodies, fused into stone, remain?
«People will still love their neighbour and rub against them, for warmth is necessary. Sickness and mistrust will seem to them like sins; one must simply watch where one steps! Foolish is the one who still stumbles over stones or men!» Friedrich Nietzsche, «Prologue» from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883 ...
