![]() Instead of projecting a universal conquering gaze from nowhere, she tries to make sense of the grand schemes of history on disordered post-it notes (✽ADDY«, »The Big Lie«, »The Trap«, »It’s Over«, a diagram of the arrow of time enclosed by a depiction of the cycle of time) strewn across the tabletop of her podcasting station. Speaking at times from the past and speculating into future, she embodies the antagonist of an omniscient and omnipresent god-like narrator. Chronicling the different fields of inquiry as they emerge throughout the pilot and stitching them together, she almost performs the role of a timekeeper herself – a not so linear, not always so accurately calibrated one. ![]() The passage of time, figured as human history and told through its grand narratives, is a subject another ambiguous character returns to again and again, the Unreliable Narrator performed by filmmaker Leilah Weinraub. The interrogation concludes with one possible qualifier of fossil hood, namely that fossils have stopped believing in history. At least there’s encouragement from Banter’s shirt, which reads: »Your Opinion Matters«. ![]() The audience is left to face the task of identifying the false statement among the many proposed. They confront their followers »collaborators« with a series of questions which is first announced as a prepper’s manual for death, then some kind of Socratic dialogue parody, to finally morph into a somewhat morbid version of Two Truths and a Lie. In the style of a »How To« video, these two YouTubers walk around a lazy river on a farm (Trecartin and Fitch’s rural home in Ohio). The characters Branch and Banter (Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch) profess to have done all the research to provide a qualified answer to what may or may not be a serious matter of concern. The title of the exhibition is taken from one of the earlier chapters of the pilot, in which it appears as the main topic up for discussion.
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