Elysium vô bờ / Elysium without Shores (2024)
Video with sound
10’
Elysium without Shores is a kaleidoscope of digital divination and time travel. It imagines a futurist ”múa bóng rỗi” ritual on an island in Cổ Chiên River of the Mekong Delta, the crossroads of Greco-Roman and the Funan Óc Eo civilization. Their ritual culminates in destroying a hydroelectric dam system at the source of the Mekong River that has adversely affected the delicate ecologies that the river runs through. This climatic and cosmic destruction is a complex critique of contemporary industrialization and a symbolic reclaiming of modernization trajectories that have gone awry.
Produced by blankNegatives studio
Commissioned by Samsung Foundation of Culture