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- Title
- Electric Earth
- Year
- 1999
- Material
- 8 channels, 8 projections, color, stereo, 9:50 min. cycle
- Description
- Considered as a prototype of Aitken’s moving image art, Electric Earth is an artwork that has been on exhibit in the world’s major museums and galleries since its first production for the 1999 Venice Biennale. The protagonist of the film, who is the last person on earth, subconsciously synchronizes with the pulse and rhythms of the desolate urban environments he wanders through. These are places where dreams and reality intersect and where the movement of time is reflected in the accelerating landscape. A vacant ground near the airport, a car wash, a supermarket parking lot, and an automatic laundry provide a background for different sequences. These sequences are edited like a ‘seamless patchwork’ employing the radars of the airport, sharp diagonal street lights, rotating security cameras, and glaring brake lights as an articulation of sequence shifting.
In this 8-projection installation, videos are played in four different rooms: the first and last room with one video each and the two rooms in the middle with three videos respectively. Immersed in the videos inside these narrow rooms, audiences have a unique physical experience in time and space. By following the suggested flow of the space, the audience involuntarily participates in a kind of three-dimensional ‘montage’ work.
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