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035 $a(OCoLC)on1242798344
040 $aUKMGB$beng$erda$cUKMGB$dOCLCO$dTOH$dYDX
020 $a9781846382130$qpaperback
020 $a1846382130$qpaperback
050 4 $aPN1997.2.U582$bL49 2021
082 04 $a700.92$223
100 1 $aLewis, Mark,$d1958-$eauthor.
245 10 $aPierre Huyghe :$buntitled (human mask) /$cMark Lewis.
264 1 $aLondon :$bAfterall Books,$c2021.
300 $a125 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aAfterall books
500 $aA large part of this book is dedicated to illustrations
520 $a"An examination of Pierre Huyghe's post-apocalyptic Untitled (Human Mask), which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry. Pierre Huyghe's 2014 film Untitled (Human Mask) combines images of a post-apocalyptic world (actual footage of deserted streets close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011) with a haunting scene of a monkey working in an empty restaurant wearing a human mask and a wig. She's a girl! The flat, emotionless almost automaton state of the mask and the artificial glossy hair topped even with a child's bow, suggests that she, the monkey, might be a character from Japanese Noh theatre. But there's no music. Instead Huyghe's film evinces the terrifying possibility that our own, human, future might just be one of remnants and mimicry; that the deserted streets of Fukushima and the monkey's recognizable, alienating chimeric performance is all that might survive us. Untitled (Human Mask) presents a pluperfect world with extinction the endgame for a civilization that cared little for the present, dreaming only of a future that inevitably and necessarily could not include it."
600 10 $aHuyghe, Pierre,$d1962-$tUntitled (human mask)
600 10 $aHuyghe, Pierre,$d1962-$xCriticism and interpretation.
852 00 $bglx$hPN1997.2.U582$iL49 2021g