Los desastres

«Los desastres» fue una serie de instalaciones encargada por un museo de arte contemporáneo (MEIAC, España, 1996). La serie propone una lectura crítica del modo en que el cine y los medios de comunicación de masas representan la violencia de la guerra.

«The reality constructed and presented by technologies, that is to say mediated reality, transforms the subject into a second-order observer, as Niklas Luhmann suggested, in the sense of an observation of the observation. When the ideological calling of suspicion is wiped out, the questioning of the truthfulness of the realities relayed by the media also disappears, as they are regarded as “true realities”. The second-order observer constructs his “reality” on the reality constructed by the media. He is the subject who has accepted the substitution of seeing-through-one’s-own-eyes for seeing-through-the-media’s-eyes, the substitution of living in the reality generated by devices for generating the history of devices.3 Marino’s generative works bring us face to face with this dynamics of media societies.» (Giannetti, Claudia, "Contingencies of The Disasters", in Nor in this case, MEIAC, Badajoz, 1998.)

El proyecto incluyó un libro con una reflexión amplia sobre la obra. Pulsa los enlaces de abajo [01, 02, etc.] para obtener más información sobre cada instalación. En la sección «Catálogo» puedes descargar el libro.