Wandering Through the Future
Video, 2007
Aprinted timeline of the future with collected taglines and dates of major film productions, forms the basis for a video collage. Wandering through the Future consists of fragments of 70 film productions from all over the world. Passing all sorts of apocalyptic landscapes and scenarios, the one-hour video leads you through the future from 2008 until 802.701 A.D. in order of appearance. The film tries to examine the way the future has been given shape and how the different scenarios relate to eachother. Worst-case scenarios such as natural disasters, utopian and dystopian cities, virusses, clones and habitats on other planets give insights into the fear for one of our main explorations still to come.
Artist's Bio:
Marjolijn Dijkman is an artist and researcher. Through her diverse work Marjolijn Dijkman often considers the foundations of how we perceive and experience our surroundings – the conventions and categories which underlie the comprehension, or not, of the world around us. Ranging from photographic archives and films, to landscape interventions and the organisation of exhibitions and experimental residencies, Dijkman’s practice has concerned itself with for example futurology, public space, knowledge organisation, cartography, utopian architecture and environmentalism. (M.D.)