The scene Roadster Crash, is in reference to Elon Musk’s Telsa Roadster that he launched into space and is currently in orbit around the sun. The scene plays with the idea that the Roadster fell out of its orbit and crashed back down to earth. Shot from the POV of a figure moving through the washed up crash, the work uses camera motion as well as this figureless POV as a tool to draw the viewer into the scene. Photographed and filmed at sunrise and sunset, the work uses light and colour to create a dreamy aesthetic in an absurd contrast to that of the violence of the fragmented car. The absurd nature questions ideas of dominance and boundaries within the relationship of nature and technology.
The work’s non verbal script is that of AI generated observational narrations through Alt Text captioning. The AI Alt Text has been chosen due to its inability to pick up on cultural subtext and its lack of a physical experience of the world through that of a body, or as we would perceive as one.
The installation and scene was filmed on Yuin Country, on Australia’s South East Coast.