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Praha
video
digital betacam
2002
Contrary to the popular perception that cities are geographic places, they can also be perceived as being complex processes of civilisation. Cities, when perceived as having a steady state, are often mystified and those myths emphasise the impression of an eternal structure, of a condition. But the myths of history and of great architecture represent nothing more than an artificial surface covering the underlying processes. Whether a city is attractive or not, the traffic still has to flow. The street crossing in Prague shown in this video represents the necessity to forge ahead with the processes that we are involved in. Using three still images this myth is "hacked up", and then reanimated to become mythical again. A saturnine vision of the collapse of accelerated civilisation.
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