MEDIUM

Mart Kangro’s new solo production, MEDIUM, unfolds at the intersection of body and screen, delivering messages and carrying meanings.

MEDIUM begins where his previous work, Pantheon, left off. While Pantheon examined world cultural history as a vast network, Kangro now stands with his own body in the midst of today’s fragmented avalanche of information. "What and how we consume within the media field creates the body we actually live in," says Kangro. Are we becoming exactly who today's news designs us to be?

Kangro has long been fascinated by the process of piecing together a whole from shards. Out of seemingly disconnected fragments, an unexpected narrative emerges. "I work in the hope that the sum of these life-shards reveals something beyond the eye's grasp, something that doesn't yet have a name," Kangro explains. "Something operating in the in-between, which we only become aware of with a delay. It is always there before us. We are always late."

We have the freedom to participate in everything. But with what meanings do we allow our bodies to be shaped—and by whom? What’s real? What’s no longer real? Where is the line between the physical world and the imaginary?

Once again, Kangro and his worn-out body are stuck under a waterfall of information overload, trying to figure out how to cope. He’s a funny one, this Kangro: simultaneously denying and despising the whole mess, yet hopelessly addicted and right in the thick of it.