We Are the Road — jennacollins

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JENNA COLLINS

We Are the Road (2018)

Video 10:15

Screened:
London Film Festival BFI, London (2018)
Technologies Of The Self. SUPER LUX Scotland (2019)
TLC Casa Victor Hugo, Havana, Cuba. October (2017)
TLC Gotland Art Museum, Visby, Sweden (2017)

In 1987, Stewart Brand wrote an evangelical account of the MIT Media Lab in which he asserted, ‘If you are not part of the steamroller, you are part of the road’. In this brutal formulation, the producers of technologies are active and the consumers, passive.

'We Are the Road' considers the position of the viewer and occupies the space of ‘the road’. It takes the activity of the viewer at the moment of viewing seriously, seeking to voice, thicken, complicate and formally double the encounter, refuting the notion that anything about this activity is passive.

Extract: 2 minutes