The Dikeou Collection is pleased to welcome Collective Misnomer as they present The way things are. The way they are going to be. This curated screening of short films will address how our current culture will define and limit the futures available to us, and will take place on Saturday, January 28 at Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 E Colfax Ave. Doors open at 7:30 pm. This event is open to the public.
Blanca Rego is an artist currently based in Barcelona, Spain. Rego’s 2007 film ame (storm) explores the dynamics of change, destruction, and creation. Rego states, “Change brings opportunity, destruction leads to new construction. Add beauty to the tragedy, accept everything is temporary.”
Simon Landrein is a London based artist. His film, P R O P E R T Y, 2016, examines the way we buy property.
Lydia Moyer is a US artist whose film The Forcing from 2015 is “a foreboding rumination on environmental and social change.”
Jim Swill is an artist, filmmaker, and writer currently working in Los Angeles, California. Of his film, Screenage Angst, 2012, Swill states, “I made “screenage angst” on an iphone 4 in 2012 as a weird dedication to violent arcade games I played as a kid. I started recording it in the Santa Monica Pier arcade in LA and began collaging it soon after. I was excited about this feeling I got there, loud explosions and faces covered in strobing white light, everyone looking passive, surrounded in totally dated digital chaos. I felt it was a hyper or fast forward version of how we just move thru situations, subconsciously, unaffected, gathering points. The rest of the shots all tie into this feeling of disregard to me, things that are actually intense but we ignore. A highway built thru a cemetery, flushing blood down the toilet, a huge data base of criminal records, half mast flags, all just a piece of the visual poem that accompanies the narrated piece.”
Keiichi Matsuda’s 2016 film, Hyper-Reality explores how, “Our physical and virtual realities are becoming increasingly intertwined. Technologies such as VR, augmented reality, wearables, and the internet of things are pointing to a world where technology will envelop every aspect of our lives. It will be the glue between every interaction and experience, offering amazing possibilities, while also controlling the way we understand the world. Hyper-Reality attempts to explore this exciting but dangerous trajectory.”
Andreas Nicolas Fischer is a Berlin-based artist. Computer Visions, 2016, poses “philosophical questions for the near future.”
Camilla Edström Ödemark attended the Royal College of Art and is currently an artist based in Stockholm. Her film Leitourgia was created in 2015. Her artist statement:”Mask yourself. Change the premises from where you speak. Hide your true intentions and become the one who is silenced. Remember that no-one likes a bully. Instead, talk about the war from an underdogs point of view. Convince the citizens of your country that they are under attack, and that they are losing. Step in as a hero. Lead your troops to the barricades. Never lose your mask. Go boldly into the future and forget about your past.”
Collective Misnomer is an artist run project focused on exhibiting contemporary time-based art (sound, video, performance) in Denver, Colorado. For more information visit their website.