FORE CAST

Fore Cast, 2006, 25" x 700" Chromogenic Dye-Coupler Print

In a series of photographs, video, and installation, a truncated landscape is created and documented, and viewers witness the land's predicted end-state, a reversion to its primeval condition and a topographical perspective of a sad new world. The marshy waterscape is the setting for the future of a civilization ensnared in an unceasing loop of WWIV, a war Albert Einstein foreshadowed as being fought with sticks and stones.

Multiple video projectors arranged in a semi-circle fill the walls of White Box and present a "Fore Cast" that will loop for six days and one hour. The videos play continuously in White Box's waterlogged space. The main screen portrays WWIV, fought by six groups of combatants ---The World Economic Forum, The Council on Foreign Relations, Bechtel, Nestlé, The United Nations, and B.R.I.C.--- colluding to capture and assert political and economic control over a shattered and borderless world. The belligerents' leaders (made of mostly kids) plot together in a corporate conference rooms, ultimately degenerating into intercontinental conflict fought with the weapons of Cain and Abel, the war unfolding in disastrous environments everywhere.