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1950da

Dans 800 ans l'astéroïde 1950da risque de rentrer en collision avec la terre et d'anéantir en un instant toute trace de vie. En un instant plus de conscience humaine, la fin de la pensée telle que nous la concevons, plus rien de cette histoire si lentement et péniblement construite… Pour l'instant cependant c'est nous, roseaux pensants, qui pouvons, par la pensée, survoler la surface de cet astéroïde, et nous saisir grâce à elle de l'astre à la fois proche et lointain appelé à l'anéantir. Benoît Broisat

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Video installation gathering the projection of the 1950da video, with a screen
showing NASA images of the so-called asteroid, taken from the internet, in
collaboration with Benoît Broisat, 2004

In 800 years, an asteroid called 1950da could collide with the Earth and
annihilate all living things in an instant. No more human conscience, the end of
thoughts as we perceive them, nothing left of this history we have so slowly
and painfully built… For now however, we thinking beings, can fly over the surface of this asteroid with our minds and cease the star (both close and far), which is supposed to destroy us.

B.Broisat

ENGLISH TEXT

1950da is a video installation created in collaboration with Benoit Broisat. It proposes a long travelling on the surface of what could be imagined as the surface of 1950da, an asteroid which could destroy Earth in eight hundred years. This travelling has been created using one of my painting and a 3d software. This attempt to recreate a navigation on 1950da with all the details of sedimentation and relief on its surface is also a reflection on what could be the last landscape after the total destruction of Earth and human perception. This constitutes also a kind of mockery of virtual simulation, here created by a simple painting. The video projection was accompanied by a real NASA simulation of 1950da taken on the Internet showed on a little screen.

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