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We are excited to announce Technology and Cosmos, the eighteenth screening in the Cosmos Cinema online film program as part of the 14th Shanghai Biennale. This week we present Dragonfly Eyes (2017, 9 mins), a film by Xu Bing that will be available through March 23 on the Cosmos Cinema website.
Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes is presented in the context of the biennale’s focus on practical applications of cosmological thinking. This special cut of Bing’s debut film collages online surveillance footage into an affective story that forces us to reconsider the degree to which our experience of the world is mediated by technologies. In common with all of Bing’s work, the film invites viewers to reflect on the means by which our realities are constructed. As the artist put it: “With no human agency operating them, surveillance cameras produce fascinating footage round the clock. Ineffably silent, these cameras record incessantly. Sometimes they record images that are beyond logical understanding, captured in one mad, fleeting instant. When these seemingly random yet intricately connected clips are assembled, what's the distance between the video fragments of real life and 'reality'?”
Don’t miss this work, available on cosmoscinema.art until March 23.
The Cosmos Cinema website is where the histories of cinema excavated in weekly screenings at the Power Station of Art meet the moving-image works of artists represented in the 14th Shanghai Biennale. Each week, in alignment with one of the nine thematic sections that structure Cosmos Cinema, a selected moving-image work by one its artists is presented online with new contextualizing information. The Cosmos Cinema website features works by artists including Itziar Barrio, Yin-Ju Chen, Saodat Ismailova, Deimantas Narkevičius, Liu Xin, Maha Maamoun, Agnieszka Polska, Raqs Media Collective, Ho Rui An, Liu Yujia, He Zike, Julieta Aranda, Jakub Štourač and Anna Lunakova, and Zhou Xiaohu, among many others.
Cosmos Cinema Educational Program and online platform are made possible by .ART Registry.
It is also co-sponsored by Aesop and Humanities Research Center, Division of Arts and Humanities, and DKUNST Art on Campus of Duke Kunshan University.
