Screen shot 2011-09-08 at 17.03.50 (POST.CONSUMER.CULT)
2010
Screen shot 2011-09-08 at 17.03.50 (POST.CONSUMER.CULT) (2010–2011) is a 1/10 edition digital collage from Iain Ball’s POST.CONSUMER.CULT series. The work layers a monumental Chinese architectural structure containing a traditional temple, an excavated human skull, a raging skyscraper fire, and a mass of mud-covered figures into a single hyper-mediated scene of spectacle, catastrophe, and collective trauma. Created during the early post-internet period, this piece continues the series’ transmedia content cloud by remixing global events, authoritarian monumentality, archaeological residue, and mediated disaster into a fractured image of cultural collapse and technological acceleration.
- Medium
- Digital Collage, POST.CONSUMER.CULT NFT (Ethereum)
- Edition
- 1 of 10
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Created by Iain Ball as part of the POST.CONSUMER.CULT series (2010–2011). Minted as a 1/10 edition ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum (contract: 0x8aed2ed0731a57e96f059ef3c3bc7b08af303ac6, Token ID: 20) via Manifold. Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Etherscan and Manifold.
- Location
- Blockchain (Ethereum) + Arweave
Links
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Artists in conversation
Thomas Hirschhorn
Swiss · b. 1957
Hirschhorn creates dense, hyper mediated collages that layer disaster imagery, mass media spectacle, and collective trauma into overwhelming visual environments that critique authoritarian power and cultural collapse, directly mirroring the sensibility of this piece.
Jon Rafman
Canadian · b. 1981
Rafman works within post internet art practices to construct digitally collaged scenes that fuse archaeological residue, dark spiritualism, and techno mediated catastrophe, sharing this work's quality of excavating trauma through layered screen based imagery.
Cao Fei
Chinese · b. 1978
Cao Fei merges authoritarian architecture, spectacle, surveillance culture, and collective disorientation in digitally constructed transmedia works that critically examine Chinese modernity and cultural collapse in ways that closely parallel Ball's layered visual language.
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