THE THOUSAND-YEAR PLAN
channel video installation, 56 min, 2021
The Thousand-Year Plan is a 2-channel, immersive video
and sound installation, created for a solo exhibition at the
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. The film, which combines
animated and a live-action video, presents the processes of
electrification, the development of power grid and
technological megastructures into a governing planetary
architecture: how human-technology relationship evolved
into in a situation in which humans don’t live next to the
technology, but rather inside a spherical, planetary
technological organism. The installation has a dense
structure and consists of many different types of audio and
visual stimuli, designed to put the viewer into a hypnotic
state of mind. With a poetic narrative and shattered edit,
the work focuses on various aspects of the development of
electromagnetic grid: its role as a map of socio-economic
power, a tool of control, an emancipating factor, a
placeholder for spirituality, an architecture for modern
consciousness and later Information Age.