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Bora Akinciturk at Ultrastudio, Pescara

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A 3d Keanu Reeves as Neo from The Matrix lies on a gurney, shirtless with electrodes attached to his chest and a transparent oxygen mask on his face. He’s in what looks like an emergency room. There are three nurses, two Asian women and a cartoon tiny winged donkey-man.

Neo hears a text to speech bot whispering “What if he took both pills?” 

“He would lose all memory of what the Matrix is and who Morpheus and Trinity are and he would wake up in his pod, having no recollection of how he got there. He would then be rescued by people he did not recognise or had only seen in a dream. So – taking both pills would cause him to forget there even was a choice of pills to begin with.”

On the TV Ellen DeGeneres shows her audience this new invention from Japan, a vase like thing with both ends open. It’s something to shout into and it mumbles your scream. 

“I wish I had that on election night” she says. 

Crowd loves it, laughing ecstatically. 

Later she’s dancing with a plush mannequin to a slowed down version of Justin Timberlake’s “Rock Your Body” song. 

Crowd goes “Aww”

The moral of the story here is that pain becomes pleasure as pleasure becomes sadness. Or something like that. Time passes. And it’s just another system. Like Neo, if you take both pills you wake up from the Matrix unconscious. Awake without a purpose. A dog without a bone. Into this world you’re thrown.
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25.6.17 — 20.8.17

Ultrastudio 2017 Guest Program 'From Light to Dust' presents:

'We're already dead, we just don't know it yet'

by Bora Akinciturk

Photo by Ivan Divanto

Ultrastudio

'Old Sun, New Sun', Group Show Curated by Andrew Sung Taek Ingersoll at Et al., S

'The Houses Of The Serpent Bearer. The 9th House' by Mónica Mays & Flora Yin-Wong

'Dream Archipelago', Group Show Curated by Sergey Guskov at Smena, Kazan

'Eternal Flame', Group Show at Shore, Vienna

'Cosmovisions', Group Show at Medusa Offspace, Brussels

'No Time To Explain' by Paul Robas at Solito, Naples

'Night Rider' by Yan Posadsky at Devyatnadtsat’, Moscow

'Funding Emotions' by Magnus Frederik Clausen and Kaare Ruud at Cantina, Aarhus

'What I felt for you was love', Group Show at Afternoon Projects, Vancouver

'Mirror Stage' by Bora Akinciturk and Ella Fleck at Shipton, London

‘Millions Now Living Will Never Die!’ by Ian Swanson at Plague Space, Krasnodar

'VEGAN' by Jack Jubb at house of spouse, Vienna

'Fresh Hell' by Jonah Pontzer at Rose Easton, London

'It's quite like Guggenheim', Group Show at Ringcenter 1, Berlin

'OUTER DARKNESS', Off-Site Project by Allyson Packer in 1698 GALISTEO, SANTA FE

'mareas' by Elizabeth Burmann at Galeria Patricia Ready, Santiago

'Vape Cloud Premonition' by Sam Hutchinson at Forth, Nottingham

'Punch-Drunk' by Yutaro Ishikawa at LAID BUG, Tokyo

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