"Untitled (Vaporwave: an Abstract One-Act Play)"
"Untitled (Vaporwave: an Abstract One-Act Play)" is a redux of “Vaporwave” as an aesthetic and conceptual/theoretical possibility, in the form of a one-act play, with landscape as the stage. An idealized past is mythologized, and becomes a space for re-dreaming. Key ideas of a “meme” aesthetic are reconfigured as more serious conclusions. Dreams of the future are accessed through deliberate fiction(alization) of the past.
An alternative to “vaporwave” as commodity worship is presented - something more abstract, romantic, and poetic - confusing form and substance. The utopian and dystopian are reversed, asking if even vaporwave can keep up with its own acceleration? Phrases originally translated from English, presented as Japanese texts spoken in English with a strong Japanese accent. Are they inspiring? motivational? threatening? ominous? mysterious? oblique? indecipherable? Rather, it becomes about magic, frontiers, and the landscape as something that exists internally, within us.
Affect, potential, and actualization are all present, like phantoms; paradoxically offering what looks like the promise of a brighter future on the horizon, while that horizon always remains out of reach.
Untitled (Vaporwave: an Abstract One-Act Play) �
Holographic Entrypoint �
ホログラフィックエントリーポイント
Best of Classic
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demanding a script
スクリプトを要求する
requiring a soundtrack
サウンドトラックが必要
to change the future
未来を変える
the past must be dreamed again
過去は再び夢を見なければならない
(you are looking at something that never occurred)
hummingbird
ハチドリ
vaporwave
蒸気波
no promises
約束はできません
nature is now known as the background ❤️
自然は現在、背景として知られています
dream poetry → poems of a dream
夢の詩
❤️
they are fragments of a universe � �
彼らは宇宙の断片です
why am i here
all the world is a stage �
すべての世界が舞台です
100% ICE COLD TEARS �
the landscape is digital
風景はデジタルです
it is going to happen anyway
それはとにかく起こるつもりです
� �
you don’t know ❤️
where secrets are still kept ⟁
秘密がまだ保持されている場所
Untitled (Vaporwave: an Abstract One-Act Play)
Noah Travis Phillips
2017
