Pierre Huyghe [Untitled (Human Mask)]

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Автор: Lewis Mark

Язык: английский

Год: 2021

Издатель: MIT Press

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**An examination of Pierre Huyghe's post-apocalyptic *Untitled (Human Mask)* , which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry.**

Pierre Huyghe's 2014 film *Untitled (Human Mask)* combines images of a post-apocalyptic world (actual footage of deserted streets close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011) with a haunting scene of a monkey working in an empty restaurant wearing a human mask and a wig. She's a girl! The flat, emotionless almost automaton state of the mask and the artificial glossy hair topped even with a child's bow, suggests that she, the monkey, might be a character from Japanese Noh theatre. But there's no music. Instead Huyghe's film evinces the terrifying possibility that our own, human, future might just be one of remnants and mimicry; that the deserted streets of Fukushima and the monkey's recognizable, alienating chimeric performance is all that might survive us. Untitled (Human Mask)...