TOXICFEST 2021
11.06—03.07.2021
Exhibition text
A rhizomatic feature film screening across multiple artist-run online & offline locations.
TOXICFEST is the final film festival of the anthoprocene, the last broadcast from the futureless present. An archive discovered at the twilight of civilization, never seen by human eyes.
Festival program
1. TERMINAL SPACE
Terminal space s a serialized film directed by the artist group Kotz, and is composed of works submitted by the curated selection of artists for the group show Maman.
BabenShin, Borsos Lorinc, Guillermo Ros, Helin Sahin, Ian Bruner, Jennnital, Biyavili, Juan Covelli, Kajta Novitskova, L3X Shemanski, Most Dismal Swamp, Poncili Creacion, Andri Schatz, Plague, Rolf Nowotny, Tadpole Origin+ Valerie You, Torre Alain, Virtue Village and Matt Hanson.
w. Terminal Space (K.O.T.Z)
Curated by Underground Flower & Rhizome Parking Garage
2. MUTANTS OF READINESS: DIRECTOR'S CUT
Kostis Stafylakis & Theo Triantafyllidis ft. Joshua Citarella
Live Stream Excerpts
Duration: 26'33'
The streaming performance took place on 20 December 2020
MUTANTS OF READINESS is a new chapter in the Readiness SAGA, a serialized simulation of social conflict in the US. Kostis Stafylakis and Theo Triantafyllidis, alongside a shifting synthesis of collaborators, tailor real and fictional, often scary and fringe, collective identities to a clandestine world permeated by fantasy aesthetics and hopepunk trash. Readiness foreplays the pending scenarios of an upcoming American Civil War.
TOXICFEST is the final film festival of the anthoprocene, the last broadcast from the futureless present. An archive discovered at the twilight of civilization, never seen by human eyes.
Festival program
1. TERMINAL SPACE
Terminal space s a serialized film directed by the artist group Kotz, and is composed of works submitted by the curated selection of artists for the group show Maman.
BabenShin, Borsos Lorinc, Guillermo Ros, Helin Sahin, Ian Bruner, Jennnital, Biyavili, Juan Covelli, Kajta Novitskova, L3X Shemanski, Most Dismal Swamp, Poncili Creacion, Andri Schatz, Plague, Rolf Nowotny, Tadpole Origin+ Valerie You, Torre Alain, Virtue Village and Matt Hanson.
w. Terminal Space (K.O.T.Z)
Curated by Underground Flower & Rhizome Parking Garage
2. MUTANTS OF READINESS: DIRECTOR'S CUT
Kostis Stafylakis & Theo Triantafyllidis ft. Joshua Citarella
Live Stream Excerpts
Duration: 26'33'
The streaming performance took place on 20 December 2020
MUTANTS OF READINESS is a new chapter in the Readiness SAGA, a serialized simulation of social conflict in the US. Kostis Stafylakis and Theo Triantafyllidis, alongside a shifting synthesis of collaborators, tailor real and fictional, often scary and fringe, collective identities to a clandestine world permeated by fantasy aesthetics and hopepunk trash. Readiness foreplays the pending scenarios of an upcoming American Civil War.