Surditas
cycle deals with problems of communication, interaction and cognition of the
other. Strict limitation of the Anthropocene brought with it a loss of
meaning., hope and faith. Without pre-modern belief in meaning, the motivation
for virtue disappears; without the humanistic script of modernism by witch
everyone fulfills some predestined cosmic role, everyday life becomes a race
for power in a world emptied of all deeper meanings. Twenty-first-century
elders live longer, but with less meaning. Their memory is replaced by
algorithms, privacy is sacrificed for the sake of life extension. Dysfunctional
systems are maintained by monitors, pumps, computers; the authentic inner voice
is lost in the noise of biotechnology. Kusmuk draws narrative self that invents
through a reconstructed vision of the past, present and future.