ESIOD 2015

At the exhibition from October 20, 2017 to August 5, 2018

Vienna 2051. A woman returns to the city after several years to close her bank account. Saved on this account is not only money data, but also memories and other personal information. The computer system does not recognize the customer. She has to undergo a »memory check«, which analyzes how she reacts to data, videos, and images stored in the account. She searches for access to the virtual safe in order to travel back in time and send a message to the present.

Against the backdrop of dystopian science fiction, in »ESIOD 2015« Clemens von Wedemeyer projects into a not-so-distant future the current financial crises, and the virtualization of work, life, and capital that is inherent in the architecture of the »Erste Campus«, a building project of the Austrian Sparkasse Erste Bank. Wedemeyer's protagonist gets more and more lost in the border zones between real and virtual spaces, and the film also dissolves increasingly, becomes transparent, a pixel cloud.

Courtesy of KOW, Berlin