Episode II：Planet SECURITY & Planet ESCAPE

Planet SECURITY
For all the people who have lost their faith in globalization, is there any place to go? As they start to feel betrayed by the current economic system and its exploitation of resources, a backlash ensues, and they run away to Planet SECURITY. Here, they build tall walls to serve as safe havens, drawing lines in the sand to defend the last remaining core elements of modernization: identity and self-protection. But this is yet another daydream: living on your own, ignoring all the humans and non-humans on which you depend. Perhaps it might be more apt to call it Planet Populism.

Highlight Work of Planet SECURITY / James T. Hong
Ethnic Taiwanese American artist and experimental film director James T. Hong has long centered his work on philosophical thought and life experiences, exploring such issues as identity, race and class. His work The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend anticipates the making of an epic science fiction movie, imagining a future historical event in which Taiwan is squeezed between various powerful nations of the world and must face military conflict. As this film project is only in the pre-production stage, it presents excerpts of the plot in the form of storyboards, using fragmentary information and experiences to piece together an understanding of this world.
 

Planet ESCAPE
The immensely wealthy people may feel an urge to leave the insecurity and constraint of Earth and flee it entirely! Thus, Planet ESCAPE becomes the next refuge. To avoid the oppression and danger brought about by climate change, the rich immigrate to this underground bunker one by one, far from the madness and clamor. But these solutions can never be shared with the billions of people left behind.

Highlight Work of Planet ESCAPE / Femke Herregraven
Dutch artist Femke Herregraven has long systematically explored the relationship between financial incidents and ecological disasters. Her work Corrupted Air – Act VI begins from the vantage point of a survivalist, inviting us to enter a bunker built to escape social chaos or environmental collapse. Tracing statistics regarding catastrophe bonds, human death rates, and ecological extinction, the artist has produced data visualizations, landscape reliefs, sound, and visual images, offering a prophecy of the future of the “Last Man.”