Tyler Brett, Almost Paradise, 2024. 8 minute video projection loop & instrumental sound track.
'I thought that dreams belonged to other men, because each time I get close they'd fall apart again.'
Agency of subjects
Power within landscapes of struggle
Communal work processes
Spectacle of demolition
Spectacle of radical transformation
Wrecking material objects
Recreating disasters
Cheap entertainment
Lust for destruction
Planned obsolescence
Aesthetic retooling
Organic use of detritus
Transgressive creativity
Wills, needs & desires
Biological limits
Waged bodies
Precarity & security
Consumer dissatisfaction
Envy
Emotion & Desire
Made & remade
Fodder for destruction
Salariat
Precarity & capital
Logic on the landscape
Pasture land
Scientific farming
Bread & butter
Salvaged commuter cars
Competitive cars
Stylized violence & aggression
Surplus Value
Debilitation of mobility
Labour providing leisure time and access to materials
Skills & tools
Independence & ingenuity
Meritocracy & communitarianism
Arenas, grandstands & backless plank bleachers
Mobility of meaning
Rebuilt material environment for own uses
Intentional collisions
Disable competitors
Final heats
Last car moving
Almost Paradise... instrumental adaptation of the love theme from the movie Footloose performed by Mike Reno and Ann Wilson. Songwriter(s) Eric Carmen (music) & Dean Pitchford (lyrics).
Lists derived from Demolition Derby, Working-Class Identity, and Capitalist Geographies by Billy Williams. Journal of Working-Class Studies, Vol 8 Issue 1, June 2023.