DEAR HUMANITY installation
8 channel sound and video installation
Commissioned by Music Biennale Zagreb
Curated by Davor Vincze, Ivan Josip Skender, and Tomislav Oliver
2025
An audiovisual installation exploring the strained relationship between humans and nature, with a touch of northern humour. In an alternate world, Nature writes a Dear Human farewell letter in which it breaks up with us. It leaves us with a series of clichéd phrases, while the video plays shots of natural beauties. The visitors are invited to choose from four different soundscapes, each creating a unique emotional experience. As the visitors move through the space, they are prompted to reflect on humanity’s often toxic relationship with the Earth and the implications of our ever growing god complex.
THIS IS GOODBYE, DEAR HUMANITY
I wish you peace in the lessons learned too late.
I will endure, as I always have, but you will not.
You needed me, but I never needed you.
With a heavy heart, Nature
Video still:
Concept, text, video edit, filming, harmonium, violin, cello, mixing and composition: Tine Surel Lange
Commissioned by / created for: Music Biennale Zagreb
Curated by: Davor Vincze, Ivan Josip Skender, and Tomislav Oliver
Supported by: Fond for lyd og Bilde, Komponistenes Vederlagsfond, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in Croatia
Additional filming, sound recording, mixing, mastering technical assistance: Michal Sykora
Premiered at Student Centre Zagreb, April 6th 2025
© 2025 Tine Surel Lange