An interactive video and sound environment in the death metal aesthetic, by Nick Lesley.
Opens at Brewer's Mansion on Nov. 23, 2010. On view through Dec. 10th.
55 Waterbury St., Bushwick, Brooklyn.
11/23/10 - OPENING PARTY at Brewer's Mansion.
12/3/10 - GUNUNG SARI & DINUGUAN perform inside EPIC DOOM video installation, at Brewer's Mansion.
12/10/10 - DUBKNOWDUB & ZACH LEHRHOFF perform inside EPIC DOOM video installation, at Brewer's Mansion. CLOSING PARTY!!!
Diffusion of responsibility is a social phenomenon that occurs in groups larger than a critical size. Unless accountability is explicitly assigned, each member's sense of personal responsibility for group welfare sharply declines as the group reaches a size of approximately 150 members. This phenomenon is a common reaction to our society's many environmental crises, resulting in anxiety or apathy. However, because social structures are complex systems, societal ills are necessarily emergences: They arise out of the small (seemingly negligible) actions and interactions of individuals.
EPIC DOOM is an illustration of global decay as emergent phenomena. It is an interactive sound- and video-installation that processes the physical actions of visitors and passersby and re-presents those actions in real time. Through this process, it provides an illustration of human agency and implicates the individual as a harbinger of evil in our shared destruction.