<

Jean Baudrillard. “The consumer society” (1970)  translation by Chris Turner (1998)

Work by Cesar Harada CSM-ENSAD, 22/10/03 London.

Download the film 3.6mb

English
 I try to demonstrate that the consumer society is the origin of a lot of waste, that consumption in itself is not a cycle so it leads to a mass production of garbage which is impossible to make totally disappear. I oppose an eco-system wich regulates itself and the society of consumption that accumulates waste. The idea carried is that over-consumption is a vicious cycle, that at each loop the integrity of the good is damaged till its sense disappears completely. The violence and the repetiton of it echoes the non-sense of "our modern world".

Francais
J'essaie de demontrer que notre societe de consommation est a l'origine de beaucoup de gachis, que notre systeme n'est pas un cycle et qu'il nous conduit a une production de masse de dechets. J'oppose un eco-systeme qui s'auto regule a la societe de consommation qui acumule.
La sur-consomation due a un esprit de competition est un faux cycle vicieux, a chaque tour de production-destruction l'objet voit son sens abime jusqu a la totale perte de sens. L'objet n'existe plus pour une utilite, il devient autonome, il ne repond plus a un besoin humain mais sa simple existence est la pour nous rappeller notre dependance a cette societe de consommation.
La violence et la repetiton de la violence sont l'echo du non-sens de notre "monde moderne".

   

Piece constitution :

 

A. Video work

  1. 1 VHS video tape usable (5 minutes audio-visual document)
  2. 1 VHS video tape brocken
  3. 1 VHS video tape very brocken

 

B. paper work

  1. 3 A3 black and white prints
  2. the paper you are reading now

 

C. the black litter plastic bag


Posters :

destruct 1

destrct 2

destruct 3

stills from the video

<