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End Game - Late capitalist Realism, 2006
Damiano Bertoli, Cate Consandine, Chantal Faust, Danielle Freakley, Kate Fulton, Brad Haylock, Katherine Huang, Raafat Ishak, Sean Loughrey, Tom Nicholson (with Andrew Byrne), The Rollergrooves (Narinda Reeders and Tai Snaith), Bernhard Sachs, David Simpkin.
The Office of Utopic Procedures' 2006 project Endgame includes new work by fifteen contemporary artists, working and living in Melbourne and devolves from a series of ongoing conversations and artists' projects.Endgame addresses the issue of the dystopic, framed in terms of an analysis of the current cultural moment as the pathology of a type of reality principle. The Office of Utopic Procedures is an umbrella concept for a series of projects directed specifically to the circulation of symbolic language as a political problem.
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Introduction
Film , was Samuel Beckett's first efforts in the medium of film. He was known to be interested in new media and silent film. It was written in 1963 and filmed in New York in the summer of 1964 on a very hot day. It was directed by Alan Schneider (who has published an online essay about the event) and starred Buster Keaton who was 68 at the time. (Beckett made his only trip to America for the shooting of the film). The film is silent, reflecting Beckett's renowned passion for early film, such as Serge Eisenstein and Louis Biunel and Dali's 1929 film Un Chien Andalou .
The film is based on Bishop George Berkeley's theory Esse est percipi . Beckett refers to Berkley's questions of perception and identity'; that "to be is to be perceived: even after all outside perception -- be it animal, human or divine -- has been suppressed, self perception remains . In Film Buster Keaton plays a character that in Beckett's words is "in search of non-being, in flight from extraneous perception breaking down in the inescapability of self-perception." The film is considered by Gilles Deleuze to be one of the greatest contemporary Irish films. For Deleuze the entire film is "the tale of Berkeley who has had enough of being perceived and of perceiving. A type of 'endgame' in that to not visually exist does not necessarily mean dead. Maybe in life we are more dead than we would like to think or Beckett's 'pictureless picture of death' is not the 'the end'.
"Perception and language have lost their ability to explain and so control reality. They can only postpone, not prevent, disaster. Language has become a broken machine and the universe is seen as a shunting engine."
Sean Loughrey, 2006