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DRONE TOWN
MISS AL SIMPSON, 2025on objkt
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In "Antler Parade," the future is neither sleek nor sterile. It is absurd, wild, and defiantly alive. Dancers — part shaman, part glitch — tumble down the night-washed streets wearing antlers and drones fused to their heads, their bodies adorned in a chaotic assemblage of tutus, wigs, and digital debris. They dance not for an audience, but for the city itself — a ritualistic act of reclamation amidst the roaring traffic and flying shards of meta-collage.

Here, absurdity becomes resistance. The human form, disfigured and adorned, challenges the mechanized gaze of passing vehicles and the indifferent surveillance of unseen watchers. The antlers suggest ancient fertility rites; the drones imply modern control systems; the tutu and wig speak to a dismantling of fixed identity. This is not dystopia — this is mythogenesis: the creation of new urban myths born from the detritus of both human and machine worlds.

Stylistically, Antler Parade floats between digital street theatre, dream logic, and post-urban decay — creating a universe where ritual is rewritten for the algorithmic city.

By deploying AI video generation not as a tool of replication but as a shamanic instrument of absurdity, the artist calls forth a radical new vision: cities haunted not by ghosts, but by a new breed of digital celebrants — the last dancers of Drone Town.