POST-CHRONIC DIVISIONATIONS

2021

A medicalized undead two-faced figure, facing forwards and looking back, navigates past and future endings from the position of present doom. Guides through (that) feeling (that) it’s already too late.

Projection-mapped video and soundscape enliven the two profile faces of this sculpture, cast from the face of CPR dummy ‘Resusci-Anne.’ Includes quotes inspired by accounts of ‘localized apocalypses:’ American slavery, The Holocaust, the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the Guatalalan Civil War, the ongoing pandemic, and more.

Includes quotes inspired by the accounts of:

• Yasujiro Tanaka, Yoshiro Yamawaki, Inosuke Hayasaki - Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki (1945)

• Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka - The Holocaust (1941 - 1945)

• Maria Tulia Lopez Perez - The Guatemalan Civil War (1960 - 1996)

• Tursunay Ziawudun - Uyghur Genocide (2014 - ongoing)

• Octavia Butler, Kindred - Slavery in the USA (1619 - 1865 and beyond)

• Pandemic Dream excerpts (2020)

• Resusci-Anne First Aid dummy product description & Technical Services description - Laerdal Medical (2020)

54 x 3 x 38”

baby dress, infant hospital gown, plaster casts of CPR dummy face, plaster, clay, glue, ash, iodine, plaster bandage, projector, speakers, amplifier, media player, cables, single-channel video (runtime 16:10 min.)

Clip from the beginning (full runtime: 16:06 min)