The exhibition "How To Become A Fossil" by the collective DIS features their new video work "Everything But The World" (2021) presented in a site-specific installation. The film explores narratives of history, ownership, and human existence through a genre-bending documentary-science fiction series format.
In the exhibition "How To Become A Fossil," the collective DIS presents "Everything But The World" (2021), a 38-minute film conceived as a TV pilot, set within a site-specific installation. This work reinterprets history by linking contemporary actions, such as those of a warehouse worker, to activities from around 10,000 years ago during the agricultural revolution. The film critiques post-Enlightenment notions of progress and explores themes of private ownership, subjugation, and the very essence of being human across vast scales of time and individual existence.
The narrative delves into symbols like the castle, representing private property and control, and questions the linear progression of history, suggesting it is shaped by invention and power. The film challenges assumptions about truth and knowledge, positing that our understanding of reality is limited by our access to information and belief systems. It examines the flawed origins of Western humanism and the media's focus on end-time narratives, questioning the cyclical nature of societal change and the potential for new worlds beyond our current civilizational trajectory. Through diverse visual formats, from classic documentaries to YouTube tutorials and varying aspect ratios, "Everything But The World" blurs the lines between reality and fiction, creating a multimedia exploration of contemporary existence.