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Finn Hepler Johnson

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Endless Summer

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IMMOBILE ASCENT - 1h performance

Immobile Ascent is a moving photograph of futile progress. A body on a descending escalator, trapped in motion without advance. Stillness within movement, exhaustion without purpose—the absurdity of a world that demands more but leads nowhere.

The society of the 21st century is a society of performance, where humans, transformed into autistic self-exploiting machines, move relentlessly without ever advancing. In this performance, a person climbs an escalator for an hour, going down, and staying in the same spot. Occasionally, they move out of the frame to evoke the illusion of freedom in a system that forces adaptation, to underline the absurdity of conforming to a system that demands continuous movement but offers no direction.

The work Immobile Ascent is a portrait of sterile hyperactivity: a labor that doesn’t build, a progress that doesn’t liberate but consumes. The being becomes apathetic. This performance is a moving photograph in which the body, stuck in a repetitive gesture, becomes a symbol of stillness that challenges time, showing the absurdity of directionless progress.

This performance was developed based on the book The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han.

@ecal_photography

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how has april felt like 4 months??!

ps. wrap any gifts for me like that lamp = free kisses for life

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No party like a Lopez party

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twee is over and done now 🤫we won

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My 4 founding fadders appeasing their appetites via Sultan’s gracious gifts of summer sandies, pit vipers and sweet summer toe jammies🧌 I see these photos and think of this song each time🏃🏼‍♀️

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didn’t make it to a @joy.minimart concert, dammit.

team xtreme won kickball tho 🙂‍↔️

Seattle part 2

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Layne Staley was here

Seattle part 1

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