{"id":13950,"title":"Hydra Decapita ","dimensions":"00:31:00","date_begin":"2010-01-01","material":"HD video, colour, stereo","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of The Otolith Group and LUX, London ","cached_tag_list":"Hydra Decapita Otolith Group","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":10,"permalink":"hydra-decapita","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Video","nl":"Video","fr":"Video"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/032/302/large/Hydra_Decapita__2010__film_still.__Copyright_The_Otolith_Group._Courtesy_the_artists.jpg?1465564161","poster_credits":"(c)The Otolith Group","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe film \u003cem\u003eHydra Decapita,\u003c/em\u003e 2010, is located within the domain of Drexciya, the Detroit techno duo who imagined a sub-aquatic fictional nation of Drexciya in the Atlantic, populated by the unborn children of pregnant women thrown overboard during the \u0026lsquo;Middle Passage\u0026rsquo; journey of slave ships. \u003cem\u003eHydra Decapita\u003c/em\u003e depicts the dark ocean, overlaid with electronic music and vocals sung by Sagar. This \u0026lsquo;liquidity\u0026rsquo; possesses a duality, evoking both the historic trade in humans across the oceans, as well as the abstraction of the present-day system of financial capital. \u003cem\u003eHydra Decapita\u003c/em\u003e contemplates the complex relations between power, death, language, global capitalism and abstraction, prompting us to imagine alternative possibilities for societies.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe film \u003cem\u003eHydra Decapita\u003c/em\u003e uit 2010 situeert zich binnen het domein van Drexciya, het technoduo uit Detroit dat de fictieve (en gelijknamige) onderwaternatie Drexciya bedacht. Drexciya zou onder de Atlantische Oceaan liggen, bevolkt door de ongeboren kinderen van zwangere vrouwen die overboord werden gegooid tijdens de zogenaamde \u0026#39;Middenpassage\u0026#39; van de slavenschepen. Ingebed in elektronische muziek en de stem van zangeres Sagar, toont \u003cem\u003eHydra Decapita\u003c/em\u003e de donkere oceaan, en deze \u0026#39;vloeibaarheid\u0026#39; is tweeledig: langs de ene kant wordt de historische mensenhandel over de oceanen ge\u0026euml;voqueerd, langs de andere de abstractie van het huidige systeem van financieel kapitaal. \u003cem\u003eHydra Decapita \u003c/em\u003eis een contemplatie op de complexe relaties tussen macht, dood, taal, mondiaal kapitalisme en abstractie. Het werk zet ons aan om ons alternatieve mogelijkheden voor samenlevingen te verbeelden.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLe\u0026nbsp;film \u003cem\u003eHydra Decapita,\u003c/em\u003e 2010, se situe dans l\u0026rsquo;univers \u0026eacute;chafaud\u0026eacute; par Drexciya, le duo de techno de Detroit\u0026nbsp;: une nation imaginaire subaquatique dans l\u0026rsquo;Atlantique, peupl\u0026eacute;e de f\u0026oelig;tus de femmes enceintes jet\u0026eacute;es par-dessus bord lors du \u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;passage du milieu\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo; par les bateaux d\u0026rsquo;esclaves. \u003cem\u003eHydra Decapita\u003c/em\u003e d\u0026eacute;peint un oc\u0026eacute;an obscur, couvert par la musique \u0026eacute;lectronique et le chant de Sagar. Cette \u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;liquidit\u0026eacute;\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo; fait montre de dualit\u0026eacute;\u0026nbsp;: elle \u0026eacute;voque \u0026agrave; la fois la traite transoc\u0026eacute;anique des esclaves ainsi que la nature toujours plus abstraite du syst\u0026egrave;me actuel du capitalisme financier. \u003cem\u003eHydra Decapita\u003c/em\u003e contemple les relations complexes entre pouvoir, mort, langage, capitalisme mondial et abstraction, nous invitant \u0026agrave; imaginer des possibilit\u0026eacute;s de soci\u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute;s alternatives.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1069,"name":"The Otolith Group","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}