Rise and fall lie close together in the fossil record of human history. Berlin’s Schinkel Pavilion presents “Everything But the World” the latest video work by the New York art collective DIS. The cross-genre science fiction documentary focuses on humans, as one of the most remote species on Earth today. (Image Courtesy of © DIS, Everything But The World, 2021)
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Rise and fall lie close together in the fossil record of human history. Everything But The World questions post-Enlightenment notions of „progress“ by connecting the repetitive movements of today’s warehouse worker to the prehistoric ways of life practiced by our ancestors as they transitioned from hunting and gathering to farming full-time.
– from Schinkel Pavilion.
A collaborative project by Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro, DIS works both artistically and curatorially across a broad range of media and platforms. Their latest video work sees numerous protagonists guiding us through the narrative, while blurring the line between reality and fiction. The images change forms and formats, taking the inspiration from the classic documentary to the YouTube tutorial to the TV show. The human fascination with the dystopian end of time is here in the focus, tracing the frontiers of possibility.
It may be difficult to grasp from the perspective of our scarce lifetimes, but history is not a narrative of evolutions and constants, but of changes and revolutions.
If we understand that our world is only one possibility among many, what worlds might await us after the end of the world as we know it?
– from Schinkel Pavilion.
