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Episode 6: Ding Ling & Senait, installation view, CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo (2021)
EXHIBITION
This exhibition presented the first six episodes of Leviathan Cycle, with the following structure, developed in accordance with the schedule of the Centre: each day featured a continuous loop of a single episode; beginning on Monday with Episode 1 and ending on Saturday with Episode 6, which was conceived following a joint invitation to the artist by CCA Tel Aviv and Outset Contemporary Art Fund and a premiere at Manifesta 13 in Marseille in 2020.
Linking tropes from the ancient past to current and pressing issues and unorthodox temporalities, this 10-part film cycle envisages a future eerily like our present, whose inhabitants are the survivors of a cataclysmic solar event. Each script and subsequent film are written from the point of view of an individual character, giving you an insight into their particular trauma and pathological traits and giving each episode its own personality, visual language and rhythm. Set 20-50 years from now, the larger narrative follows a migratory journey – paralleled in the non-human world – across Europe, Asia, North Africa and beyond, encountering a series of idiosyncratic communities along the way. Taking a global and collective approach, while looking at what is increasingly not only a humanitarian crisis but a wider systemic crisis within our biosphere, “Leviathan” becomes a reflection of where we might end up if a deeper understanding of trauma and climate erosion is not found.
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
Lecture: Leviathan and Nehushtan in Philosophy and Art
18 November 2021
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Roundtable: On otherness
2 December 2021
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