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Pierre Huyghe
Mark Lewis
其他書名
Untitled (Human Mask)
出版
MIT Press
, 2022-01-25
主題
Art / Individual Artists / Monographs
Art / Film & Video
Art / History / Contemporary (1945-)
ISBN
1846382157
9781846382154
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Iuv4DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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An examination of Pierre Huyghe's post-apocalyptic
Untitled (Human Mask)
, which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry.
Pierre Huyghe's 2014 film
Untitled (Human Mask)
combines images of a post-apocalyptic world (actual footage of deserted streets close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011) with a haunting scene of a monkey working in an empty restaurant wearing a human mask and a wig. She's a girl! The flat, emotionless almost automaton state of the mask and the artificial glossy hair topped even with a child's bow, suggests that she, the monkey, might be a character from Japanese Noh theatre. But there's no music. Instead Huyghe's film evinces the terrifying possibility that our own, human, future might just be one of remnants and mimicry; that the deserted streets of Fukushima and the monkey's recognizable, alienating chimeric performance is all that might survive us. Untitled (Human Mask) presents a pluperfect world with extinction the endgame for a civilization that cared little for the present, dreaming only of a future that inevitably and necessarily could not include it.