Un examen des questions soulevées par l'œuvre de l'artiste Rikke Luther entre 2015 et 2025, qui explore les effets à long terme de cette ère d'effondrement, ainsi que leur impact sur les ordres sociaux et la stabilité du système terrestre.
We Lost Control Again recounts the twentieth-century attempt to construct an international political and aesthetic order in the wake of war, and what remains of that Babelian architecture today.
The twentieth century bequeathed a cross-national political and legal architecture, cemented in place by the United Nations. Ideological differences were overlaid with an assumption of progress and a universalising aesthetic of 'concrete Modernity'. However, as communism collapsed, and a digital communication and control systems took root, neo-liberal hostility to the Enlightenment values underpinning Western democracy and the rules-based international order swelled. As the aesthetic and political architectures of Modernity have retreated, the means through which planetary heating and species extinctions might be addressed have faded rapidly.
Rikke Luther (née en 1970) est une artiste et chercheuse danoise basée à Copenhague.