Niko Skorpio: I Want My Revolution

Completion year: 2017

Technique: HD video, 03'50" / 720p, 16:9, colour, stereo

Edition: 5 + 2 ap

I WANT MY REVOLUTION is based on a performance held at public space. An anonymous person, his head wrapped in bandage, runs errands at a shopping mall. The performance explores the conventions of quasi-public space as well as the reactions – or lack thereof – provoked in people and the performer himself.

I WANT MY REVOLUTION imitates the form of music videos. The soundtrack is an electro punk track featuring a text-to-speech vocalist.

I WANT MY REVOLUTION deals with the concepts of protest, revolt and revolution in consumer society. Is change possible in a milieu that converts subversive symbols into commodity and devours all revolutionary energy for its own propulsion?

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