Objects for Zeroville
A performance by Rotozaza
Presented at the Shunt Arches, Bethnal Green, London
2001
A sort of science fiction, set sometime in the future, ‘Zeroville’ took as its inspiration the film ‘Alphaville’ by Jean-Luc Godard and a book called ‘The Plato Papers’ by Peter Ackroyd. This book begins with some quotes from the ‘past’:
‘All fallen dark and quiet, all gone down. Collapsophe.’
(Joseph P, Diaries, 2299)
‘We who survive, we scoured ones, in depths of dark dismay, call out of the Night of our World, gone as we knew it, as we know it.’
(London Hymn, c.2326)
‘The World of Science was collapsing, but the divine consciousness of humanity had not yet asserted itself. All her labours lay in recording the manifest signs of dismay and wonder.’
The sculptures are assemblages of de-familiarised everyday objects and created a set of salvaged otherwise ‘extinct’ traces of past human activity.
