Neo-minimalist in style, B-Ville 2049 is by sensibility related to the Dadaist movement of the 1920′s which refused the deadly nature of bourgeois nationalism and the accompanying logics that they believed led to the atrocities of war.
B-Ville pursues their premises further, rejecting even irony, and art media themselves. Videos refuse to move. Words persist in remaining abbreviations. Sentences refuse to extend beyond the phrase. Sound is restrained, ambient and restricted to short bursts. Color is equally muted.
The attentive audience will gradually pass from a consideration of each work to a meditation on the very nature of silence, refusal and revolt.
