Alexander Repp: necrolog of robin williams or the suicide of irony

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Artist(s):

Alexander Repp

Title:

necrolog of robin williams or the suicide of irony

Exhibition:

DAC Online Exhibition 2015: Enhanced Vision - Digital Video
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Creation Year:

2014

Medium:

Video

Size:

3:00 min.

Artist Statement:

On 13 August 2014, between 11:25 pm and 11:45 pm, BBC Three showed the episode of Family Guy involving Robin Williams and his failed suicide attempt. Shortly afterwards, at 11:56 pm, Reuters news agency confirmed the suicide of Robin Williams. It is an uncanny coincidence, but what does it mean for the tragic irony of the cartoon? In an inverted form of irony, the audience has an advance in knowledge from the fictional world towards the real world. Can we still speak of irony?

In a virtual journey through the Twitter network we might perceive a narrative obituary, that was created by related twitter users. Inductively, the opinions spread in just a few minutes. Consequently, a wave of empathy traveled across the network. The broadcast brought people together, in a bizarre and eerie way, who were trying to figure out a way to response to the incident.