Dining Tsars [Catherine the Great’s banquet setting, BioBot reconnaissance, vigilant Haniwa horses, against the Skies of March] creates a dreamy speculative banquet scene as the site where three different worlds overlap and interpenetrate, superimposing Catherine the Great’s exquisite dinnerware, taxidermied peacocks and porcelain figurines as they appear to melt and decay, while vigilant Haniwa horses secure the perimeter, and an inquisitive flock of bio-bots explore the territory.
Dining Tsars is Part 5 of Naming Things.
Dining Tsars (2015-16)
single channel HD video
3’17
Screening history:
Arti et Amicitiae De Salon Amsterdam NL 2017; School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2017; Galerie Royal München DE 2017; Forårsudstilling Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen DK 2017; LACE Femmes Video Art Festival 2 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 2016; Ear Taxi Festival Harris Theater Chicago USA 2016; Moving Minds Glyndwr University Wrexham UK 2016; siva)(zona Korcula HR 2015