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Julia Stoschek Collection opens an exhibition of works by Jeremy Shaw
Jeremy Shaw, Quickeners, 2014, 16mm film transferred to video, 36′24″, color, sound. Video still. Courtesy of the artist and König Galerie, Berlin.
by Maxwell Stephens
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.- Jeremy Shaws Quantification Trilogy consists of three parafictional short films: Quickeners (2014), Liminals (2017), and I Can See Forever (2018). The works are set in the future and explore how marginalized societies confront life after a scientific discovery has mapped and determined all parameters of transcendental spiritual experience. This is known as The Quantification. Employing aesthetics and outmoded media of the 20th century to depict the future, Shaws alchemical combination of cinema verité, ethnographic film, conceptual art, and music video invites the viewer to suspend their disbelief in the story, and provides a series of critical perspectives on systems of power. The Quantification Trilogy examines fri