Posts Tagged ‘posthuman’

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Diana Thater. Life is a Time-Based Medium, 2015. Three video projectors, three lenses, player and Watchout system; dimensions variable. Installation view at Hauser & Wirth, London, 2015. ©Diana Thater; photo by Alex Delfanne, courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

#museums #empathy #posthuman #Anthropocene #environment Recent headlines demonstrate that human beings are consistently terrible to one another, and it can be tempting to reject the human altogether. Drained by a year of public and private deaths, numb with exhaustion after having a child and returning to work, I entered Diana Thater’s mid-career retrospective at LACMA and found that those worldly concerns quickly fell away. Thater’s[…..]