TERRIBILIS
Andreas Gaida Miguel Trigo Morรกn Sid Clemens Tom Solty
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HOW MANKIND WAS SUDDENDLY ABLE TO CREATE MASS DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, AS IF IT WAS A NATURAL DISASTER.
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METHOD I BRAINSTORMING
Define Terribilis for ourselves: • Gather visual input • Our experiences with World War I (Letters and Anecdotes) • Title play • Music
METHOD II FURTHER RESEARCH The first World War, the first of the modern ones. New inventions were improved just to show the power of a state, of citizens. Who are those playing behind the guns and bombs, from miles of kilometres away, able to kill a large number of persons as we have never seen? Is this an aim of the technology?
DISTANCE HUMANITY? COURAGE?
Can we call them humans if they are not acting like them? Can we said ‘‘they are brave’’ if some of them face the enemy across a screen?
A hero in war, however, remains a murderer. War heroism is a social construct that rewards people who take lives with social appreciation. Militarism supports this concept.
HEROISM MILITARISM HONOR
This is plain wrong. By killing people you don’t achieve honor and pride, but lose respect for the value of life. There is no morally and ethical superior point in being a war hero.
The paradox way of righteousness was just standing together with the paradox fact of importing resources from foreign counrtries with a persmission just to build bombs and kill humans with it.
NATURE DESTRUCTION PRODUCTION
Terribilis as the huge power of faint that is controlled by nature in the end. Made out of human malfunction.
A personal experience of trying to understand the use of power around us. It’s about how one can look aesthetically to moments of death that contribute to a greater purpose. War takes its tole on soldiers and the entire population, but what happens to the individual contemplating. “This soldier, I realised, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.“ - Napoleon
SUBLIME POETRY CONTEMPLATION
METHOD III PITCHING IDEAS We found that technology unites all our ideas in one denominator. Whether it is the destruction of resources and nature or the new kind of war that became prevalent in the first World War – it all resolves around technology. Every member of the group is able to see his own vision of Terribilis in the context of the first World War in this special topic, which is important to develop a solid idea for the festival.
Technology as common ground.
THE IDEA TECHNOLOGY The outcoming of the first World War was dependent on the development of new technologies and weapons. Just to mention: Tanks, planes, flamethrowers, gas, etc. This of course came up thanks to certain changes in the history that happend up until the first World War. Industrialisation, imperialistic intentions, colonialism, etc. led to a first step in direction of globalisation. Further, this development led to a brand new kind of war. Though old traditions were still apparent (in regard to german militarism e.g.), there existed an face of cruelty, suffering and pain that had not been seen before. Think of trenches, artillery bombings, shell shock phenomenons, etc. This new kind of war added a new understanding of terribilis:
How mankind was suddenly able to create mass death and destruction as if it was a natural disaster.
PROGRESS WHERE WE ARE NOW
Message: “People create natural disasters.” • Perpetual and repetitive • Positive collision • Active and dynamic
ANDREAS
SID
MIGUEL
TOM
4 路 APRIL路 2014