Studio Timaeus

Project: “Anthropocene Monsters”

Credits:

Sound design by Yopo

Production by FIBER FESTIVAL

Now that human industrial activity has reached into the capillaries of the planet – and a new era has dawned with the proposed name Anthropocene – humans are faced with monstrous changes of environment and unexpected and weird mutations of life and matter.

For FIBER 2021 the artist Timaeus created a new version of his video installation Anthropocene Monsters. Inspired by the work of science fiction writer Jeff Vandermeer, the artist often explores the ‘Anthropocene monster of the 21st century’, referring to the horrors humans have created by grossly interfering with earth’s ecosystems. Monsters ask us why we have created them. The figure of the monster may thus be used to question, disturb, and alter the conventions it helps us to analyse. With this video installation the artist presents us a series of monsters from leftovers of 21st century crises.

By 3D scanning and putting together leftovers of these issues that surround us daily, Timaeus speculates what the monsters of our time could look like. Through the usage of body movement and linking this with motion capture data, the objects start to live.

For FIBER 2021 Timaeus developed a new version of Anthropocene Monster. The sound design accompanying Timaeus’ installation is created by Yopo.

Text by Fiber Festival

This work has been exhibited at:

Die Angewante, Vienna
FIBER FESTIVAL, Amsterdam
International Film Festival, Rotterdam

Contact

info@timaeus.nl
Schiekade 189 1.05
3013 BR Rotterdam

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