That’s Delirious! (2019-ongoing)
Thomas Kuijpers has been observing how contemporary phenomena of concern brew and boil in a virtual atmosphere, until the moment they lash out and put their tentacles in reality. The moment where the virtual suddenly becomes a dark reality and is directly compressed into a state of virtuality again after the event, is what interests him most.
By collecting and combining the layers of information that are shaping the narratives around these contemporary events – from preface to the actual event, to the aftermath in news media and politics – Kuijpers attempts to gain insight into the chaotic and uncontrollable flows of information that nest in our minds.
The project evolves from Kuijpers’ earlier projects ‘Bad Trip’ (2017-2018) – in which he investigated the effect of abundant presence of populist information on his personal perception of the world – and ‘Desti-‘ (2019), a movie that tried to find answers to the question: if we look beyond the problems we face at the moment, what would the ideal world look like?
