Matthias Planitzer

A Boring Dystopia

"A Boring Dystopia" (10:31), 2023 (excerpt)
8 channel video installation, sound. Airbus plane seats, podium. English, German closed captions.
"A Boring Dystopia" (10:31), 2023 (installation view)
8 channel video installation, sound. Airbus plane seats, podium. English, German closed captions.
"A Boring Dystopia" (10:31), 2023 (installation view)
8 channel video installation, sound. Airbus plane seats, podium. English, German closed captions.
"A Boring Dystopia" (10:31), 2023 (video still)
8 channel video installation, sound. Airbus plane seats, podium. English, German closed captions.
"A Boring Dystopia" (10:31), 2023 (video still)
8 channel video installation, sound. Airbus plane seats, podium. English, German closed captions.
"A Boring Dystopia" (10:31), 2023 (video still)
8 channel video installation, sound. Airbus plane seats, podium. English, German closed captions.

The long-awaited singularity is already here, and it‘s not the machines which threaten everyone‘s livelihood. After all, they only reinforce the existing order of exploitation and dispossession to which we are accustomed to such an extent that it becomes a recurring, boring nightmare. The casual business as usual reaches a simple conclusion: There is little prospect of success in trying to fix a system that is beyond repair.