"And was the bombing of the WTC with regard to the Hollywood catastrophe movies not like the snuff pornography versus ordinary sado-maso porno movies? This is the element of truth in Karl-Heinz Stockhausen's provocative statement that the planes hitting the WTC towers was the ulimate work of art: one can effectively perceive the collapse of the WTC towers as the climactic conclusion of the XXth century art's 'passion of the real' - the 'terrorists' themselves did not do it primarily to provoke real material damage, but 'for the spectacular effect of it'."*
This work is about the fantasy realized, in the way that 9/11 realized a fantasy I moved on to consider the possibility that all the other fantasies that we have seen in films would suddenly become reality. If one illusion is suddenly broken by having it turned into reality, what if all the others would too? It shows our secret desire of destruction, our desire for the end of days in which our fears would no longer be obscured but would be out in the open, ready to be taken on.
In another way the work is about our culture of warnings, protection and paranoia. The way everyone wants to be prepared for everything that could possibly go wrong, even though that is in itself completely impossible. I've taken the 'be prepared' motto a little bit further to show its fragility.
"To us, corrupted by Hollywood, the landscape and the shots we saw of the collapsed towers could not but remind us of the most breathtaking scenes in the catastrophe big productions."*
*from Slavoj Zizek's 'Welcome to the Desert of the Real' (2001)