Elevate Festival Magazine – Issue 2

are considered qualities of the feminine. The womb is a generating
void, a paradox of creation – this limbo state of uncertainty, which is
simultaneously embracing and threatening, is a recurring motif in my
work. An equilibrium which includes the shadow and feminine aspect
is a truth of human nature that has largely been ignored or repressed,
but is re-emerging.
How do you think art can render the truth comprehensible/
visible?
I think art should provoke, it has the capacity to illuminate issues or
injustices that are otherwise obscured and difficult to connect with.
Art can open a window but also a mirror for reflection. Crucially it leaves
space to discover something for yourself; demonstrating the existence
of subjectivity, yet also a persistent commonality. Accordingly,
art is a very powerful tool to connect with our collective unconscious,
which I think is a representation of a shared unity that could be called
truth. Audio-visual and immersive environments especially have the
potential to mediate a space for transcendence, where it can be easy
for people to disconnect from the familiar into an individual or collective
spiritual experience.
In your work for the Elevate Residency, your narrative is
that a future AI looks back at humanity in the Anthropocene
– it’s a dystopian scenario due to human failure. Can
you elaborate on what the AI sees and what the human
failure is?
I imagine the distinction between an AI and human intelligence to
be rationality and materiality. AI sees the failure of humanity in its
contradictions, and illogical self-sabotaging deceptions. The decadence
of patriarchal society originating from an ignorant obsession with
materialism, causing mass destruction by viewing itself as separate
from the ecosystem, as a god. Narcissism is both a psychological and
cultural condition.
Even though AI is observant of human failure, I like to think there is
a romantic view of its differences. If human nature is defined by irrationality
and mutability, it is both a curse and a gift, because its also
the origin of love, passion, and splendour. Thus, the AI artist attempts
to follow in a romantic tradition of art, which positions human frailty
in the context of sublime, omnipotent nature. The apocalyptic earth is
wounded and wrathful, with oil being symbolic of the quest to bleed
her dry.
You mentioned you’re exploring altered states of consciousness
and parallel realities. In your opinion, how can
this exploration have an impact on our human nature, our
reality, the planet, the future?
Mythology and symbols have always helped us explain human nature.
It might seem paradoxical, but exploring what lies beyond our perception
of reality helps to understand our place in the world. By realising
truth is relative based on your perspective, and that transformation is
a constant, we can have more empathy and tolerance with others as
well as respect for the ecosystem. Accessing the unconscious through
any therapeutic method is where personal growth arises. The growth
of individual consciousness determines the evolution of collective
consciousness. Once the individual in conflict is healed, society in
conflict can be healed – in other words, personal change will lead to
social change.
Jeremy Carne ist ein in Berlin ansässiger bildender Künstler und Filmemacher.
In seinen Video- und Installationswerken verwendet er nichtlineare
Erzählstrukturen, um veränderte Bewusstseinszustände und
parallele Realitäten, insbesondere Vorstellungen von Dystopie / Utopie,
zu erkunden. Jeremy interessiert sich für das Wesen der Wahrnehmung
und die Kraft von vermittelter Erfahrungen als Potenzial für persönliche
und kollektive Transzendenz.
1988 in der Nähe von Bristol (UK) geboren, studierte er zunächst Film,
Video und interaktive Kunst in London, bevor er als konzeptioneller
Filmemacher im Theater- und Kunstbereich arbeitete. Später konzentrierte
er sich auf die Verbindung von Ton und Bild als bildender Künstler
unter dem Namen „Carnivore”. Seit 2014 ist er Creative Director von
’Ouroboros Studio’, zusammen mit Nikolas Kasinos, spezialisiert er sich
auf Videoarbeiten.
jeremycarne.co.uk
@crnvrcrnvr
Jeremy Carne is a visual artist and filmmaker currently based in Berlin.
Through his video and installation pieces, he frequently uses non-linear
structures to explore altered states of consciousness and parallel
realities, particularly notions of dystopia/utopia. His interest lies in the
nature of perception and the capacity of mediated experiences as the
potential for personal and collective transcendence.
Born in 1988 in the UK he went on to study ’Film, Video & Interactive
Arts’ in London before working as a conceptual filmmaker for the
Theatre and Art sector. He later focussed on the connection of sound
and image as a visual artist under the name ’Carnivore’. Since 2014 he
is Creative Director of ’Ouroboros Studio’ along with Nikolas Kasinos,
specialising in video works.
jeremycarne.co.uk
@crnvrcrnvr
Das Cover dieses Magazines und die künstlerischen Interventionen zwischen den Seiten sind eine Vorschau auf seine Arbeit im Rahmen der Residency.
The cover of this magazin and the artistic interventions inbetween pages are Jeremy’s preview for the residency project.
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