Jack Faber: Dictionary of Darkness

Dictionary of Darkness is wanting into the official Division of Protection (DoD) lexicon of navy phrases by means of the planetary views of ecological battle. Learning the function of present armed struggles inside wider environmental warfare, it contrasts its vocabulary with views from disputed frontiers, contested areas and (previous and current) colonies.

Questioning the logic that drives the event of applied sciences that militarize nature, dominate the wild and cultivate it to the purpose of devastation, Dictionary of Darkness focuses on the technically indifferent language that propagates this course of. Nonetheless, the set up explores the seductiveness of the identical semi-professional syntactical enchantment which is quickly disseminated and popularized by the cultural complicated and media. The work makes use of modern archival approaches to look at the acute outbreak of the present world safety disaster and its escalating economic system of violence.

Consisting of twin sited cinematic set up, the solo exhibition Dictionary of Darkness explores new connections between the accelerating world safety and ecological crises. Concurrently, the 2 exhibition websites counsel an escalating state of affairs of diminishing sources, with restricted or denied entry to important supplies and areas, that’s mirrored in each the present worldwide crises and their mode of presentation.

Dictionary of Darkness is a real-time response to those disruptions and the non-public sense of destruction they engulf in lately of violence and battle, whereas delving into the interior depths of the covert connections between the safety economic system and the setting, surveillance and species survival, oppression and subversion.

Jack Faber (b. 1978) is a Helsinki-based award-winning filmmaker and artist-researcher, investigating the safety economic system’s affect on the humanities and its function as local weather disaster catalyst. He explores cartographies of critique by means of constructive practices of disobedience, specializing in cinematic and transferring pictures as websites of battle and reconciliation. His interdisciplinary observe questions—by means of subversive use of drones, tropes and new applied sciences in surprising methods—the accelerated militarization of public areas and the formation of ecological battle zones.

Merging movie, collaborative tasks and installations, Jack’s observe examines potentialities of participatory engagements and interspecies equality by means of in-depth research of institutional ecologies, applied sciences and extinction economies. JKFR sensitively makes use of humor, transgression and cinematic immersion for explorations which highlights inequality and oppression. Such explorations have been within the middle of censorship and worldwide civil rights circumstances (as with the “Watchmen” trial), and been introduced within the Berlinale, TFL and different venues.

One other venue for the exhibition is the Inventive Analysis Web site (K247) on the Academy of Superb Arts, College of Helsinki, Mylly constructing, 2nd ground (Sörnäisten rantatie 19, Helsinki). The exhibition at Huuto IV Gallery is open Tuesday–Sunday 12–6pm, Free admission (K247 upon appointment).

The exhibition is supported by the Kone Basis.