Voices of the Near Future, (PAL DVD, 14 min, 2008)
Voices of the Near Future (2008) is a 14 minute video produced by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum during a three month long residency at Ssamzie Space in Seoul, South Korea. The fractured video diary centers on two unseen protagonist who travel to Seoul from Copenhagen, Denmark, in an effort to discover the future by means of a mysterious device.
As the two, whose names we never learn, gradually discover the futility of their quest, they take it upon themselves to bring about the future by means of the device, making Seoul the futuristic city they had hoped for. Through deliberate misunderstanding and fictionalisation of their own experiences during their stay in Seoul, they implicate themselves and try to reach beyond traditional notions of criticality and analysis.
The grainy documentary images transitions into smooth abstract computer animations as the video combines touristy travel diary and science fiction conventions, combining the identities of the artist behind the video with the fictional characters in the video. Implicating the artists own experiences and their fascination with and investigations of the role science in fiction and popular culture.
Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum
