Forty Years of Boredom – Room 1 / FOLLOW US OR DIE
(Rotterdam: Redefine the Enemy at Tent., 2008)

Film pamphlet providing a framework for contemporary resistance, in relation to a movie by Guy Debord, and the so-called “high school shooters.” As an extension of Guy Debord’s notion of the “society of the spectacle,” the artists introduced the concept of “digitalization of society,” in which Debord’s vision was claimed to still harbor a sense of “innocence” and sentimentality. Whereas Debord could unashamedly speak about labor as “alienating,” this cannot even be clearly recognized anymore by our current generation. The detachment that Debord discussed in relation to labor and the targets of production, were extended toward the domain of the individual: the “Second Life” principle, in which “reality” as such as disavowed for its lack in consumability.

Concept and production in cooperation with Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
Edit by Michel Ligtenbarg
Translations by Peter Shenk