POND SCUM
Issy Van Der Leden
27/01/22 – 19/02/22
POND SCUM: a greenish layer of algae which forms a film on the surface of still waters. POND SCUM lays like a thick blanket over the darkness below, shielding it from the prying glare of the sun. There is no dimension of time on the flat, stagnant surface.
The world is becoming augmented. The world is becoming intentionally designed. It feels inevitable, like this was always meant to happen. Is there nothing that can be done? POND SCUM meanders through moments in history, dipping in and out of reality to form an almost-cohesive narrative… before dropping back into the depths.
Using chopped and screwed videos from youtube, twitter, discord — often without a source, simply circulating with no beginning or end — POND SCUM uses video collage and documentary elements to string together a story of technological madness. Simply put, POND SCUM is… a green film.
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Issy Van Der Leden is an artist whose work is influenced by her all-too-digital adolescence. Her practice uses video collage, bad graphic design and spoken word to crystallise the contemporary digital world, to unearth the structures and systems behind it, and to ask how we can use that world to steer the future towards a glittering, gleaming utopia. She completed her BFA(Hons) in graphic design at the Ilam School of Fine Arts in 2020. Since then, she has come crawling back to her hometown of Auckland, where she now enjoys making silly comics, indoor bouldering and getting bitten by her new puppy.
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Design by Zoe Hannay
Sponsored by Parrotdog
