Consumerism casualties: looking for unicity via the same reproductory force that dissipates a work’s aura.
Mondo Glitch is a project born during the 2017 GEM Salemi Summer Institute organized by Concordia University at Centro Kim in Salemi, Sicily.
Centro Kim works as the new home for the film archive of the former Mondo Kim’s in NYC. For more information about how the archive ended in Sicily you can go here.
The initial concept was a collaboration between Matias ER and Joaquin Serpe. The project consisted in ripping files from broken and DRM protected DVDs found in the archive. Letting the random glitches chance produced to be fully visible in technically uncorrupted files. Destroying cohesion and proposing an alternative pseudo-contemplative narrationless way of seeing. A collection of alternative takes of movies that nobody would want to watch.
Since there the archive has been slowly expanding by including generic DVD editions of many other movies.
The present site has been created in 2020 to be periodically updated with new movies. As now, all the information about the movies is straight-up copied from IMDB, all the movies are hosted on Streamtape.
The work has been exhibited in various forms:
- 2019/11 | Loss curated by Orlando Mee. The Wrong Digital Biennale (online).
- 2018/03 | Orizzonti Creativi curated by Ilario Luperini. Centro Espositivo SMS, Pisa.
- 2017/06 | Centro Kim, Salemi, Sicily.