<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"><b>New #podcast: Swiss artist Christoph Draeger </b>t</span>alks about disastertainment,
surveillance, copies and originals, critical distance, reenactments,
layers of meanings, and provocation.<br><br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/christoph-draeger-/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/christoph-draeger-/capsula</a><br><br>In his work, Swiss artist Christoph Draeger uses video, installation,
photography, and constant nods to the language of Hollywood and the mass
media, which he dissects with a critical gaze and a spirit of
reflection. Draeger describes his work as an analysis of the way we
respond to and interact with the media. To this end, his main vehicle is
disaster: natural catastrophes, wars, and other tragedies as
paradigmatic examples of contemporary media hype. The tools of media
coverage, its implications, the ephemeral nature of disasters which are
exploited and quickly replaced by a new event, always more shocking than
the last. “We are consuming disasters. Disasters are by far what gets
the most attention in the media. People are almost hooked on live
disasters,” he says in the interview. <br><br>His pieces use archival
footage and material that he produces himself, often reenacting events,
reproducing fragments of films, or manipulating existing documents in
order to emphasise, exaggerate, and point out key aspects in the complex
web that makes up our notion of the world, which, in the digital era,
is inextricable from information networks. As Draeger says, “reality,
reenactment, live footage, tv, and a certain degree of fiction, are all
intertwined”. <br><br><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/christoph-draeger-/capsula" target="_blank">SON[I]A talks to Christoph Draeger about surveillance, copies and originals, critical distance, reenactments, layers of meanings, and provocation.</a><br><br><br></span></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"><b><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Christoph Draeger: <<People are almost hooked on live disasters, or disasters reported on tv and other media as well. This is something that is very important in our society, but it is also something that is very short-lived. One disaster is basically always replaced by the next one. And we tend to forget what this really means.>><br></span></b></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"><font size="4"><br></font></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"><font size="4">Enjoy!</font></span></b><br></span></div>