Red Filter: In Search of Shimmer
The 'constructed postcard' aims to offer as an alternative response to Hito Steyerl's question addressing the politics of the monochrome: "How could we insert an imperceptible subtraction into the red lights which are flashed at us to evoke terror and destruction?" 1
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[1] Hito Steyerl, ‘The Empire of Senses: Police as art and the crisis of representation’, Transversal: Art and Police, 09/07 (2007).
The postcard depicts a detail of a city landscape at night, seen through a telescope with a red filter and captured on film using a pinhole camera.
200mm f/6 Guan Sheng Dobsonian telescope, TS Optics Super Plössl 32mm eyepiece, TS Optics 2x Barlow Lens, TS Optics Colour Filter Red #25, pinhole camera, 30 min exposure time, Fuji Superia 1600 35mm film, human eye
→ Contribution to the symposium and exhibition Postcards from the Anthropocene: Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation, University of Edinburgh.
→ Visual essay now published in the book Postcards from the Anthropocene, edited by Benek Cincik and Tiago Torres-Campos, published by dpr-barcelona in 2022.
