“Fardistantly past due, we throughganged the outpumpers, the alden gatherers saved from longforetimes.“
As climate change progresses apace, the rains rarely stop and the tides continue to rise, surging through our barricades and breakwaters. With our pumps overwhelmed and means of escape increasingly dysfunctional, we speak the language of castaways, surrounded by the wreckage of our imagination. We are the Bilgestruck…
A few years ago, I originally made The BiIgestruck using a very early version of MidJourney AI to create some background elements that I did not have my own material for. At the time, MidJourney seemed like an exciting new way to create original material. However, it is now clear that these AI engines illegally use original work and consume massive amounts of power. Therefore, I have completely remade the video using all my own footage. Even so, the images look somewhat unworldly, which is part of my intention. Each scene has been composited from multiple sources, mostly from around Port Adelaide and the coastline south of Adelaide. The text is in a kind of future-archaic dialect that I invented.
This is The Bilgestruck completely re-imagined from the version first exhibited in Port Adelaide in 2023, curated by Tony Kearney.