Democracia
ORDER, 2018
Single Channel Video, 54′ 50″
Courtesy of the artists and a/political
ORDER is a joint commission between a/political & Station Museum of Contemporary Art

 

ORDER is a tripartite operatic film, based on carefully engineered interventions in public and private spaces. Filmed between Houston, Dublin and London, ORDER proposes a global perspective on historic antagonisms of the oppressors and the oppressed. It moves between open-carry demonstrations, shopping malls and lavish dinners, confronting poor and ultra-rich. The libretto of ORDER is inspired by the Greek poet Hesiod’s poem Work & Days, in particular, its the depiction of the Iron Age (Myth of The Five Ages). Written during the Ancient Greek agrarian crisis, it sounds strangely familiar in the present day: “For now truly is a race of iron, and men never rest from labour and sorrow by day, and from perishing by night, and the gods shall lay sore trouble upon them.”