Archipelago (No one is an island) splashes heedlessly into a fictional exploration of the high frequency trading firm Archipelago and its existence in the strange socio-political, socio-economical and psychological reality of the proliferating internet and lives lived in wireless connectivity. In this business realm, human activity, unfolding in virtual spaces and directed by algorithms, is mainly left to perform the rituals that gives the bodiless stream a body; performing the myths of human ingenuity and dominance; repeating the hierarchical patterns that represent human social activity. The dramatic structure of the two channel video work shapes an archipelago in itself. Every character inhabiting the depicted environment forms an island within herself, literally plugged into a closed circuit; AirPods in ear; screen glued to face. Islands that seem to react upon one another even across time particulars and image frames.
Archipelago (No one is an island)
2 Channel HD Video, 37’05”, 2023
Credits
Traders: Peter Bonneman, Ida Hermansen, Kathrine Dyre Hansen, Linda Elkanah Dalatu, Josef Sidibe
Board: Shiv Kishore, Rune Madsen, Henry Olofin, Pearl Cutten, Mery Henriksen, Gitte Larsen, Maj-Britt Nielsen, Sverre Nordtvedt, Vanja Brankovic
Voice Over: Kathy Decompton
DP: Adam Jandrup
Producer: Christina König
1st Assistant Camera: Mads Hoppe
Dolly Grip: Claus Preis
Sound: Frej Volander
SFX: Anders Lerche
Hair and Make-up: Kirstine Engell
Hair and Make-up assistant: Maggie Pang
Casting Supervisor: Gro Terp
CGI: Laurence Weedy
CGI: Birk Horst
Score Composer: Anders Christophersen
Jewellery: Therese Mørch
Graphic Design: Tina Helen
Supported by: Danish Arts Council, Knud Højgaard Foundation, Beckett-Foundation, University of Bergen
Thanks to: Tina Helen, Daniel Jewesbury, SixtyEight Art Institute, Portfolio X, Kunsthall 3,14, The Art Academy, UIB, Den Frie, Anne-Helen Mydland, Sveinung Unneland, Alexander Hamish Millar, Frans Jacobi, Martin Hansen (SFX), Pia Bruun (UiB), ISCP - New York