Post Irony

Reflections on work of Olga Krykun

the end of 'grand narratives'

Game of Thrones, final season, 2019

(Episode The Long Night: 17.8 million viewers)

HyperReality

“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind—mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.”

J. G. Ballard

Lyotard, Jameson, Fisher:

breaking of unifying narrative

schizophreny (of)

capitalist realism

fluid

monstrous infinitely plastic entity

pre-corporation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IXvaFCauLw

#deteritorialisation

The Age of Transition

Irony

Memes

Bravo Norlan, ParallelUniverse Memes

(2015)

New Sincerity

Childish Gambino

This Is America, 2018

Post Irony

Jak mít odstup v neustáleném souřadnicovém systému? 

Ryan Trecartin

Is there a nostalgia for something lost, or a yearning for authenticity? Or should we be excited?

Well, I’m excited.

Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever

(2007-2010)

A Family Finds Entertainment

(2004)

 >> think it’s more about celebrating transition as a generative process <<

Don't Panic!

Olga Krykun

Olga Krykun: Don't Panic

(2019)

It’s as if the momentum and transformative possibilities of information are more important than securing a static legacy.

(Ryan Trecartin for Frieze)

Dílo jako portál

#rituál

new sensitivity

new collectivity

new narratives

new tresholds of time