Correspondance Antropocalipsis

Switzerland

Correspondance Antropocalipsis

Switzerland

An art group dedicated to all kinds of manipulations involving the fabrication of private correspondences, interviews, and the exploration of (non)existent methods of communication. They work with text and video. In the past decade, there has been an escalation in the leakage of private correspondences worldwide (scandals like WikiLeaks, hacking of climate change commission members’ conversations, email breaches of US Democratic Party members, and so on). Private correspondence has now become a tool for political manipulation. The goal of Correspondance Anthropocalypse is to fill in the gaps of the perfect. The group employs a strategy of counterfactuality (als ob, as if). It’s a strategy of an unrealized past. More accurately, not entirely fabricated but a “parafiction.” It’s when someone was in direct contact with another, but unfortunately, no documents (letters, diary entries, memoirs) exist. But potentially they could. The group’s method is rooted in meticulous research of letters, documents, diaries, notebooks before their destinies become the foundation for a parafictional affair. The objective isn’t to deceive and pass off a fake as real, but rather to construct completeness using schizoid methods, rectify contingent injustices, reconfigure the logic of events, and rearrange the puzzle pieces so as to reconstruct from what’s always already there, without introducing anything (fiction) from outside. Another facet of the group involves crafting nonexistent interviews with artists, theorists, curators, notable individuals, encounters with whom are hindered by various reasons (someone’s too busy, someone ignores their email, someone’s in melancholy and deep depression, or someone is simply too significant to grant an interview).

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