THE BLINK OF ALIEN

"THE BLINK OF ALIEN"

This project is a laboratory: A set of experiments, reflections, machines, sketches and prototypes behind the idea of the octopus as a phantom of extinction.

A laboratory that articulates around two ideas:

The dark side of the technique understood as Pharmakon (the idea of something that is both cure and poison ... human knowledge and the technology that has created us both destroys us ... And the octopus figure as the ghost that would shape this moment: the animal capable of surviving a mass extinction and evolving by developing a brain and an intelligence at least similar to ours is at the same time the monstrous Kraken of the past.

The same animal that will survive us in case we take the planet to collapse threatens us again from ancient times ... The demon of the past would be at the same time a ghost that threatens us from the future, the ghost of the Anthropocene.

We only have to fall in love with that aesthetic of extinction. Understand the landscape of devastation that we have created as an aesthetic ideal, as an ideal state. We need art to shape our own destruction.

If modernity dreamed of the future, the Anthropocene dreams of ghosts of the present seen from the future. The specter of extinction invites us to imagine a tomorrow in which an alien geologist in the form of the terrible octopus of the past detects the strata of our existence. A brief flicker in the history of the earth ... in the eye of an alien.