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A further grid deals with the militaristic HAARP project (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) which is located in a maximum security area north of Gakona, Alaska. | |
grid of 42 mounted single photographies 9 x 13 cm, 70 x 100 cm |
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A further grid deals with the militaristic HAARP project (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) which is located in a maximum security area north of Gakona, Alaska. Energy pulses are "beamed" here on a trial basis via extremely powerful shortwave transmitters into the atmosphere, especially into the ionosphere. The fundamental ideas behind this technology have been attributed to the legendary inventor Nikola Tesla. Numerous conspiracy theories surround this facility shielded from the outside world, including the claim that the testing ground is an instrument of an upcoming geophysical warfare, the so-called "Weather Wars." In 2007 Christoph Keller collected observations on a paranoid undercurrent and its expressions in a series of works about threats, Internet grassroots movements, and about conspiracy theories in general. The breakup of stabilizing factors that provide meaning such as religion or even science since the late 20th century has resulted in the fact that every deviation from the norm has been seen as a threat. The associations of "good" and "evil" appear blatantly obvious, whereby "the evil," the threat often seems universal and the perpetrators remain faceless. Certain specific recurring interpretative patterns of a massive threat through terrorism or alternatively the conspiracy of a few powerful people "pulling the strings" behind the scenes are applied like a template to interpret things and make them understandable. Keller does not take a position regarding the substance of these theories, rather he comprehends them as illustrations of current societal states of affairs and balances of power – and presents them as such. "This disposition, which I call the "paranoid condition," led me to occupy myself with contemporary conspiracy theories. It seems to me that in a situation in which independent science has broken away as the authority deciding about true or false and which provides society an access to reliable information, every deviating narration can assume the traits of a conspiracy theory. I therefore also do not attempt to tackle them with the categories of true of false, but rather to see them as reflections of a specific societal situation. This is also interesting for art because it, too, is closely linked to the development of independent science due to its evolution in bourgeois society." |
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