THE BORE
video composition, 13:28 mins, color, sound, 2021, online streaming
text by Carl C. Olsson · video by Alejandra Montoya · illustrations by Jolanda Obleser
The Bore consists of a series of textual fragments; short parables, fables and apophthegms which are themselves part of a larger project that aims to explore the prospect of understanding ourselves as derived from the earth and marooned upon it. In articulating this prospect and its various conditions, the hope is to make it a possible object of intervention and further inquiry: in what ways can such a terrestrial self-cognition be designed and to what ends? What existential troubles and pitfalls loom beyond its horizon? The Bore is intended to inculcate its reader with these questions, compelling them to cognize downwards toward and from themselves. The text of The Bore by Carl C. Olsson will be accompanied with images by Alejandra Montoya and Jolanda Obleser that concretize the soilbound cognition's exercise within a visual purview.
The Bore consists of a series of textual fragments; short parables, fables and apophthegms which are themselves part of a larger project that aims to explore the prospect of understanding ourselves as derived from the earth and marooned upon it. In articulating this prospect and its various conditions, the hope is to make it a possible object of intervention and further inquiry: in what ways can such a terrestrial self-cognition be designed and to what ends? What existential troubles and pitfalls loom beyond its horizon? The Bore is intended to inculcate its reader with these questions, compelling them to cognize downwards toward and from themselves. The text of The Bore by Carl C. Olsson will be accompanied with images by Alejandra Montoya and Jolanda Obleser that concretize the soilbound cognition's exercise within a visual purview.
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