"We've been playing with toys for so many years.
We've been playing for so many years."
The title of the installation refers to the album of the same name by the band"Rough Sunset" by the band Sounds of Moo. To understand the album, you have to understand the context, the time in which it was released. 1995 was a time of great changes, a time of fracture and great accomplishments.The fixable time is 1995.(one thousand nine hundred and ninety-fifth)year according to the Gregorian calendar is a non-leap year, beginning on a Sunday. It is the 1995th year of our era, the 995th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 20th century, the 5th year of the 10th decade of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1990s. It passed 27 years ago. Proclaimed by the UN as the International Year of Tolerance(United Nations resolution 48/126) and to commemorate the victims of World War II (United Nations resolution 49/25).World War II (United Nations resolution 49/25.
At oil platform "Droepnerin the North Sea off the coast of Norway off the coast of Norway, instruments recorded for the first time a "killer wave" called the Droopner wave. Assault on Grozny. SadlyThe infamous sarin attack perpetrated by the Aum Sanrikyo religious sect. Senrikyo (12 people killed, more than 5,000 injured). All of this added up to our collective experience of the "big other.
It seems I have been prepared for this all my life. Ever since I was a child I knew thatsomething very important was going to happen, something terrible. I lived with this fear, I wasI was always afraid of something. I always dreamed of staying in history. That somewhere...in a book somewhere about me. Who would have thought that my dreamwould come true like that? I always thought I was ready, but there's no way to preparefor something like this.
GARAGE Museum studios, 2022