Escape Pod by Jonathan Monaghan

Escape Pod2015

Video (color, sound), media player, screen or projectorDimensions variable, landscape orientation 20 min, loopEdition of 3, 1 AP

Escape Pod draws from Greek and Nordic hunting mythologies to follow a golden stag through modernist spaces of authoritarianism and excess. The stag moves through lavish bedrooms, airport checkpoints, and a luxury riot gear boutique, all captured from a continuous floating viewpoint. In a climactic scene, the stag emerges from a BoConcept sofa and is carried into a heavenly Duty Free shop in the clouds. Seamlessly looped in a twenty-minute cycle, Escape Pod envisions an apocalyptic future marked by militarization, totalitarianism, and decadence, symbolizing the pursuit of the unattainable.

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