DemoKino: Virtual Biopolitical Agora / Bill #5: GMO

DemoKino: Virtual Biopolitical Agora / Bill #5: GMO

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Title DemoKino: Virtual Biopolitical Agora / Bill #5: GMO
Subtitle Anti-entertainment interactive movie
Type Film, Contemporary art practice, Television film, Mass media art, Interactive project, Multimedia project
Date 2003 – 2004
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Aksioma
Language English
Format 720x576
Duration 10' 07"
URL https://aksioma.org/demokino/index.html
Registration number KAP-2003-VID-154
Number of works in a group 5

Synopsis

Notice: First part of the film is missing. The archive only has a short fragment from the last part of the film.

 

Demokino is a virtual parliament that through topical film parables provides the voters (participants) with the opportunity to decide on issues that are, paradoxically, becoming the essence of modern politics: the questions of life. 


The project questions not only the utopia of a contemporary virtual forum that is supposed to open ways for more direct and influential participation but also points out a much deeper problem of modern democracy (virtual as well). 


With its reduced narratives - the story is built on the "pro and contra" inner dialogues of the protagonist who is led around his home in a parliamentary kind of way by the "voters", based on their decisions - Demokino shows how these ethical dilemmas of modern life suddenly become the core of our political participation. 
When the issue of life enters the political arena and modern politics becomes biopolitics the democratic decision reaches an impasse: in the political arena laws are being debated on issues that can actually tolerate no decisions and any kind of majority rule is problematic in itself, any political regulation a publicly legitimated act of violence. 


Demokino is a virtual parliament that clearly displays how politics comes before the law. Law is just a utopic and redundant technical procedure to cover the political essence. 

Source: Aksioma

Artist's statement

 

 

 

Sodelujejo

Stage design ALEKSANDRA GLOBOKAR
Acting (theatre/film) KOLJA SAKSIDA
Author of a broadcast Janez Janša
Text by Antonio Caronia
Support Ministrstvo RS za kulturo, Mestna občina Ljubljana, Mojnet, VPK - Video produkcija Kregar, Oktober
Programmer Sunčica Hermansson
Singer / voice Željko Hrs

Artist, artistic group

Group of artworks

Production