Screaming Screen

Rachel Rossin, Frances Scott, P. Staff and Yuri Yefanov

From November 17, 2022 to January 21, 2023
Opening on November 17 at 6 pm

The program's title, Screaming Screen, is meant to elicit and acknowledge the anxiety and violence that is induced by our society as it meets the precipice of environmental and moral collapse. Further, it interrogates the role of images in such a crisis. The works are brought together to look at how real and surreal worlds — the images thereof ranging from archival to computer-generated — are not simply blurred, but are materially bound. The Technocene’s spectacle is facilitated by necropolitics and extractivism while simultaneously promising an escape or alternative reality to the inhabitability it leaves behind. As the planet dies an accelerating death, living bodies caught in the midst, what will disappearance look like? Though digitally treated or generated images might present as fictional imaginaries, they actually suggest that we are already living in the dystopia we dread. Such nightmarish scenes have been depicted in literature and painting for centuries but the renderings seen in this program mirror the present rather than project into the future.

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