Afterparty

3 4k LCD monitors, 8k video 9.5 min loop

Afterparty imagines society after collapse. This large scale video art triptych features a crowd of fifty people scattered across a desert landscape absorbed in looping everyday rituals.  Some gamble. A man digs a hole to nowhere. Lovers ignore each other to scroll on their phones. A group burns books as nearby figures in hazmat suits quietly observe a yoga class. 

The work is divided into three distinct pillars of contemporary life: knowledge, connection, and leisure. Rather than depicting a singular catastrophe,  The spectacle is over, yet everyone continues performing familiar routines as though nothing has changed.

Through looping everyday behavior, Afterparty is both a warning and prophecy. How much of our humanity have we given away in exchange for technological dependency? How do algorithmic systems increasingly shape knowledge, prediction, and belief? Do people even go to parties anymore? 

In the final moments of the work, everyone freezes before walking toward the camera. All fifty figures stand face to face with the viewer, as though inviting them to join the Afterparty, or perhaps to recognize they have been part of it all along.