Simulacra
These are some still images from the Simulacra installation.
This is an installation that included a wall projection in which recently extinct animals were presented as abstractions. It engages with the notion of precession of simulacra (proposed by Jean Beaudrillard), in which it is suggested that the idea of the landscape engendering the map may be flipped to the map engendering the territory. Applying these ideas to this work, I am asking the viewer to consider what the results may be of the extinction of species and our attendant abstraction of the event?
This is an installation that included a wall projection in which recently extinct animals were presented as abstractions. It engages with the notion of precession of simulacra (proposed by Jean Beaudrillard), in which it is suggested that the idea of the landscape engendering the map may be flipped to the map engendering the territory. Applying these ideas to this work, I am asking the viewer to consider what the results may be of the extinction of species and our attendant abstraction of the event?
I see flying kites is a way to make the invisible visible (the wind) and think of it as a metaphor for acknowledging the human caused extinction of species. It is also an extension of the notion of "precession of simulacra."
Precession from Susan Striepe on Vimeo.