Temp. files Season 4 wave 2 is live! November 1st marks the release of the next round of works engaging with the theme Death & Data. Each month, through December, a new set of videos will be released.
It’s 2035 and the temperature has risen by 3°F. Four young women try to make sense of the world around them. OAK is a short film about acts of regeneration that are still possible. They are contrasted with images of futility in the face of climate collapse.
The root of Tusia’s last name is “dąb,” or oak in English. Situated at the point of friction between the temporalities of nature vs temporalities of late capitalism, OAK is an attempt to grapple with what it means to be (and fail as) an oak-woman.
Shot over one day, this project is a proof of concept for a long-form exploration of the same subject.
This video plays with the form of Brand Guidelines — a meditation on corporate language and a composting of Stevens’ experience working in branding for a very large corporation for three years.
Like time zones, the width of credit cards, the height of loading docks, and Internet protocols, language has also evolved standardized forms that support the smooth flow of capital. Stevens noticed herself using this language while performing her job, and her sense of discomfort while doing so. Often discomfort expresses itself to the artist as laughter, and so, to amuse herself, she collected this language, along with some friends — and they chuckled along together.
We’re misled by the momentary span of each individual life, and by technology’s attempt to reduce and define us. We live in conditions actively trying to annihilate populations, and rightly, we protest and resist, and we grieve from our depths. Death inspires fear and awe and heartbreak. It’s the most primal opening into a wildly unknowable place. The data of life, its scents of flesh and blood, and death, are encoded in and created by our bodies, experiences, and technologies. This data pulls us both toward an unknowable future and our most primal ancestral past, with its ancient taboos and drives. Our ephemeral bodies create, carry, filter, and interpret all knowable data, objects, time-codes and thought-forms. Data points us toward historic relics, impressions left by the dead, coded into hard drives, digital records, and the ever-expanding web. What is this afterbody, and how does it soften into the noise of all that is?
Season 4 artists include:
Emily Brandt (Oct)
Eva Davidova (Oct)
Jillian McDonald (Oct)
Tusia Dabrowska (Nov)
Rachel Stevens (Nov)
Leigh Davis (Dec)
Christine Cheung (Dec)
Rah Eleh (Dec)
We are thrilled to welcome new members Eva Davidova and Leigh Davis this season!
temp.files (aka Temporary Files) is a video publishing cooperative, online publication, streaming site, and remote residency. We are an expanding and rotating group of artists working between text, social engagement, performance and media, committed to supporting each other in the process of creating new, experimental work.
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