Rindon Johnson, Now you tell me. Like always, so much depends on a single white chicken in the orchard. The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying glass. Happiness writes white. DISMANTLE EVERYTHING! It felt better going in than out. You know how it is, the absence of a casualty or a fatality does not mean the presence of safety, 2023

2023

Medium

5 TV screens, ATC live streams

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156194

“Now you tell me. Like always, so much depends on a single white chicken in the orchard. [...]” (2023) consists of five screens that transmit live streams of varying airport runways from around the world. International air traffic can be followed 24 hours a day, placing the viewer in a voyeuristic position of witnessing the constant movement and interconnectedness of our globalized world. Again, the artist chooses to cut into another reality where events can be observed, but the visitors stand outside these events. Akin to his consideration of the open window and the brick wall, these aggregated live streams examine the implicit fictions that influence our view of socioeconomic systems. “Now you tell me. [...]” symbolizes the contemporary capitalist narrative that time is too scarce to pay attention to the consequences of saving it: the permanent interconnection of places through air travel takes precedence over the well-being of the planet and a sustainable approach to it.