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David Green
The Other Side of the Lake, 2020 Acrylic and oil on linen 280mm x 360mm
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David Green
Well Again, 2020 Single-channel digital video with sound
Sixty years ago, Marshall McLuhan promised the primitive emotional immediacy of “retribalisation” excited through electronic forms of new media. Daily we observe global politics reverberating with his prescient vision.
Those who seek power know it: for our subspecies, running with the wild horses of emotion is more immediately satisfying than a slow consideration of facts and figures. This mash-up pitches affect against analysis in the contemporary digital political landscape.
