State of Cloud / SKATKA (with Mikk Madisson)
2014 / HD video, installation
State of Cloud was the first solo exhibition by SKATKA collective in Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia. On one hand the exhibition examined if and how it is still possible to define national sovereignty and selfhood with the implementation of participatory democracy through the means of e-governance. Is the Estonian post-soviet society satisfied with such a system, given that one could question whether the true outcome of elections and casting votes might be simply reduced to one’s right to elect the next winner of Sing Your Face Off?
On the other hand, the work looked at what it means to live in the cloud in its multiple forms and probed the threats of an age where the system administrator reigns supreme behind the computer. Can the creation of national cloud computational identity, within the framework of e-government and e-democracy, still be the voice of people even if it is simultaneously reinforcing neoliberal economic and political structures of inclusion and exclusion? And finally, how can one be protected in that cloud, which is marketed as having no physical representation, but is still making its users feel vulnerable.
State of Cloud video has been exhibited as part of Official Office program in digital and physical spaces at Recess, New York; STORE, Berlin and Konstanet, Tallinn.
