Arzu Ozkal

contrary.info | 2011

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Mission: Cleveland Land Mass
2011 3D Video (8'00)

Mission: Cleveland Land Mass, is a wry commentary on the amount of abandon land in the city of Cleveland. Using 3-D technology the artists urge viewers to experience the obvious, the familiar and the ignored through the distorted lens of the camera.

When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969 the world viewed the incomprehensible from their living rooms. In Mission: Cleveland Land Mass we're presenting the 'first steps' in a visual exploration Cleveland's abandon land.


These post-industrial landscapes make us think of Marx's idea of Alienation; the seperation from the results of our own production. We are alienated from the the results of the destruction we caused to our habitat.