Untitled (Index DPRK 3724_North Korean Central Television) (2009-10)
presents images from the North Korean media from 2009. The DPRK is one of the most isolated countries in the world. Its citizens live in an information void, and the only information accessible about the world outside Korea goes through the filter of the authorities in the form of a program appearing irregularly during the evening news broadcast "News of the World," which portrays the world as a threatening place. The program presents "fixed" themes: wars, accidents, natural disasters, alienating technology, global protest, extreme physical human activity, and so on. Can we learn something from the image of this alien outer world? Can these broadcasts teach us something about the way in which our world is presented or about the world that functions as an ideological supplement of the shrinking and self-destructive pockets of resistance to the process of globalization?
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