Art Research Installation Bahar Noorizadeh: Teslaism (2022) // Alicja Rogalska: The Feast (2022)

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Bahar Noorizadeh: Teslaism: Economics after the end of the end of the future

(2022)

Teslaism is a 3rd person racing musical game featuring Elon Musk and his self-driving car/lover and life coach, as they drive towards a shareholder meeting in a post-gamified Berlin landscape. The work takes the newly built Gigafactory in Berlin as a prism to describe the emergence of Teslaism (succeeding Post-fordism) as a novel system of production and consumption predicated on advanced storytelling, financial worldbuilding, and Imagineering “the look of the future.” The Teslaist CEO is a collage artist. Weaving together one tweet, one dance move, one meme after another, he creates a set of perpetually postponed and too- fabulous-to-be-fake narratives to make time make power. If post-industrial Detroit was soundtracked to technoʼs futures, the age of Teslaism seeks its own common sonic imaginaries: forms of resistance inhabiting our exceedingly financialized cities. Teslaism was originally commissioned for Tresor 31: Techno, Berlin, and the Great Freedom, an exhibition reflecting on three decades of musical evolution, social change and city development from Berlin to Detroit, told through the lens of Technoʼs history (July-Aug 2022.)

Soundtrack: Conic sections - XOR Gate (brainchild of Gerald Donald, one half of Drexciya and Dopplereffekt); Helena Hauff - Humanoid Fruit (Unreleased); GRV Tr 4 - TV Victor. All tracks are courtesy of Tresor Records and the artists.

Alicja Rogalska: The Feast (2022)

The Feast documents a metabolic feast, a dinner ritual commemorating the end of humanityʼs reliance on fossil fuels, happening sometime in the future when humans harvest and distribute surplus energy generated by their metabolisms and movements. The dinner guests consume fossil fuels and other minerals once used in energy production, such as coal, crude oil, diesel, lithium and uranium, whilst discussing the strategies employed in the past such as mourning, fighting, redistribution and decolonisation in the struggle to wean society from dirty energy and avert climate catastrophe.

Commissioned by Art Exchange, The Faculty of Social Sciences at Essex University and Focal Point Gallery.