Stillstand in Motion
In the beginning of the 20th century the Futurists imagined a society like ours: restless, hectic and dispersed.
With their manifesto they created a prophecy that we seem to live today. An existence between incredible speed, permanent simultaneity of internet and mobile phone and the constantly optimisation through technique. We feel like the watches birl faster, but it isn‘t the time that accelerates – it‘s what happens in time that gathers speed. It is not the human that presets the velocity, it is the machine. We believe that we can escape death when we are fast enough – thus fast that no time elapses. Thereby we don‘t recognize that we lose the connection to our selves and to reality.
The book trys to yield a comparison between the imagination of the Futurists and our daily life. The various statements in the book are supported by a series of portraits, that emerged in short periods of time over a whole day.
Through the snapshots the ongoing time is stopped and interrupted – the motion is forced to Stillstand.
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