12’05”

2018

“Images and screens, images-screens, but also images of images that all at once fascinate, seduce, enthrall, control, captivate, oppress, haunt, and ultimately colonise the collective imagination and unconscious…” – Joseph Tonda, L’impérialisme postcolonial: Critique de la société des éblouissements, 2015.

Core Dump explores the place of screens in global and localised politics and history, looking specifically at the contradiction between Silicon Valley’s techno-utopianism, and its extractive and exploitative relationship to Africa.

The project comprises a series of performances, projection-mapping video installations, and early African cinema (specifically the films of Ousmane Sembene). In contrast to the spectacle of technological singularity and the Western myth of progress, Core Dump considers the connections, disruptions and contradictions inherent in these ideas, through conflicting designations of value and waste.