Future Fever
미래열병
2018
Moving image
17min 10sec
Commissioned by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea
Italian Futurists rejected all existing ideas and tried to become more aggressive and avant-garde when entering the future. This attitude resonated with the purpose of Fascism at the time, which was about ‘new people, making a new society’. Futurism eventually came closer to Fascism. Just as history repeats itself, society today seems to be afflicted with the contemporary epidemic called ‘future fever’, a fervent belief that progress can only be achieved by staying ahead of others in the high-tech race. In the turbulence of rising tension, it throws the question: Where exactly are we headed now?