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Guy Louden    

Art
  1. Tradition of Hope
  2. Neoneogothic
  3. Capriccio
  4. Cloisterfuck
  5. Panic Buy
  6. Preppers
  7. Ark
  8. Tech Hagiography
  9. Snake
  10. Network Arch

Curating
  1. Oblique Politics
  2. Private Island
  3. No Confidence
  4. Theatres
  5. Success

Writing
Mark

The Ant and the Grasshopper




Guy Louden, The Ant and the Grasshopper, 2019, two-channel digital video, two-channel sound, looped.

Hardcore preppers yearn for societal collapse, revelling in the idea of vindictive violence.This artwork shows a Pelican case, a symbol of the prepper subculture, in an endlessly replayed computer-generated destruction. Presented with the slick technology of product photography, this destruction appears darkly attractive. At the same time, Aesop’s fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper is retold in a way that emphasises a malicious pleasure in others’ misfortune.

Produced for the exhibition Preppers at Fremantle Arts Centre.




Mark