MONOCULTURE | A Recent History

Language: Dutch Subtitles: English Occasionally presented by the artist as a lecture, the video About the Relationship Between the Real World and the Parallel World is the pseudo-scientific explanation de Gruyter & Thys give for the existence of the parallel world. Narrated through the voice of Thys’s father, the artists tell us the parallel world disguises itself as the real world – “There are different theories. One of them states that the parallel world is a mirror of the real world and every attack from the parallel world would therefore be a form of self-destruction.” The existence of the parallel world within the everyday is illustrated using clips from various sources inserted within the video. This work effectively describes a sort of existential crisis for humanity at the heart of what we understand as reality, and a desire for it to be replaced by an alternative.