A matter of shifting perspectives. Which views are right? What can we believe? What is real? What is true? Beginning with 7th October 2023, the project ‘A New Age’ explores daily reality on various levels. What we get presented in the flood of images in the media, observations of the ordinary and the extraordinary, cultural expressions in many forms, history and contemporary, often with a queer gaze. With the start of the Trump administration, following the White House has become a regular activity, as has sharing personal memories on Facebook. There are now more than 280,000 pictures taken with a smartphone. How to connect the various experiences? The images in this work are a selection of those that were shared and discussed in a one-to-one chat, as a diary-like conversation. The core of the communication in the chat is how to deal with the tensions of the new times we live in without becoming desperate. Dissenting 1 covers 427 days. Dissenting 2 covers 442 days. The Dissenting series is the final part of Ageing after three other parts: St. Marien, 2023, 9-11: File 186624, 2023, Another Day, 2024.
Thomas Mohr
Thomas Mohr (born 1954 in Mainz) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam
Works on perception and memory processes in performance, painting, video, and installations. Since 1985 he has been creating a growing archive with currently over 900,000 photographs taken by himself, following technological changes from analog to digital cameras to the smartphone, covering a broad spectrum of events from collective significance to deeply personal moments.
After a series about architecture in the pandemic he is since 7th October 2023 combining all kinds of elements from the visual world in the project The New Era exploring: How do we process the daily flood of impressions and information on the screen and around us? How do we deal with change in these turbulent and troubled times?
