Status/Non-Status — the new moniker of Anishinaabe creator Adam Sturgeon and his collaborators, formerly WHOOP-Szo — have released a video for "Genocidio," from their new 1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years EP, out tomorrow on You've Changed/The Grizzlar Records.
The video, directed by Travis Welowszky, features Sturgeon performing in a void amongst unnerving dioramas of 'Canadian' imagery and landscape.
About the video, Welowszky said:
From atop the makeshift mountain, a grim presence looms above the life below. A meditation on the endless, encroaching empire. The creatures traversing this plane are plastic and placeless; conjoined to their terrain as playthings in the tableaus of glorious exploiters. The understudies of colonial rule, silhouetted across a hill, obscure serenity by way of simulation; scrambling signals. Colonial esoterica. Banal evil in list form. Silence: the cause to the resounding pain.
Sturgeon said, "The crown skull of existence is consumption while genocide seeps into the cracks of our everyday. We're beginning to see beyond the veil and there isn't a whole lot more to say about it; Calling out and into our own mirrored reflections; the land, the air, the food and the children."
Check out the video below.
The video, directed by Travis Welowszky, features Sturgeon performing in a void amongst unnerving dioramas of 'Canadian' imagery and landscape.
About the video, Welowszky said:
From atop the makeshift mountain, a grim presence looms above the life below. A meditation on the endless, encroaching empire. The creatures traversing this plane are plastic and placeless; conjoined to their terrain as playthings in the tableaus of glorious exploiters. The understudies of colonial rule, silhouetted across a hill, obscure serenity by way of simulation; scrambling signals. Colonial esoterica. Banal evil in list form. Silence: the cause to the resounding pain.
Sturgeon said, "The crown skull of existence is consumption while genocide seeps into the cracks of our everyday. We're beginning to see beyond the veil and there isn't a whole lot more to say about it; Calling out and into our own mirrored reflections; the land, the air, the food and the children."
Check out the video below.
