Gerascophobia (2010)
"Everything moves. Rest does not exist. Don't let yourself be controlled by obsolete notions of time. Away with hours, seconds and minutes. Stop resisting change. EXIST IN TIME - BE STATIC, BE STATIC WITH THE MOVEMENT. For stasis, in the now occurring NOW. Resist the anxious impulse to stop what moves, to freeze moments and to kill what lives. Give up constructing values that always collapse anyway. Be free, live! Stop painting time. Give up building cathedrals and pyramids, that fall apart like sugar-candy. Breathe deep, live in the now, live on and in time. For a beautiful and absolute reality!"
- Jean Tinguely
Inspired by Jean Tinguely's "For Statis" manifesto, Gerascophobia, the fear of growing old or aging, is an interactive installation which comments on society's obsession with beauty and youth. No matter how hard people try, aging cannot be stopped, but people still spend money and put their lives at risk for plastic surgery procedures. The syringe attempts to remove wrinkles on the face, but can only temporarily change the appearance.
This piece showed at the 3rd Year New Media Show: Threshold
http://imagallery.ca/exhibitions/threshold/
"Everything moves. Rest does not exist. Don't let yourself be controlled by obsolete notions of time. Away with hours, seconds and minutes. Stop resisting change. EXIST IN TIME - BE STATIC, BE STATIC WITH THE MOVEMENT. For stasis, in the now occurring NOW. Resist the anxious impulse to stop what moves, to freeze moments and to kill what lives. Give up constructing values that always collapse anyway. Be free, live! Stop painting time. Give up building cathedrals and pyramids, that fall apart like sugar-candy. Breathe deep, live in the now, live on and in time. For a beautiful and absolute reality!"
- Jean Tinguely
Inspired by Jean Tinguely's "For Statis" manifesto, Gerascophobia, the fear of growing old or aging, is an interactive installation which comments on society's obsession with beauty and youth. No matter how hard people try, aging cannot be stopped, but people still spend money and put their lives at risk for plastic surgery procedures. The syringe attempts to remove wrinkles on the face, but can only temporarily change the appearance.
This piece showed at the 3rd Year New Media Show: Threshold
http://imagallery.ca/exhibitions/threshold/
The interactive installation set up at the 3rd Year New Media Show: Threshold
First Presentation to MPM27, Steve Daniels (Dec. 2010)
