Xanadu / U.S.A is a rapid-fire montage that condenses archival footage of Doomsday cults, iconic political figures, and global fundamentalist movements into seconds-long image bites, representing a history of apocalyptic thought as a series of MTV-style music videos.
The works that form Xanadu probe society's self-destructive impulse while parodying various elements of popular culture such as documentaries, news media, cartoons and pop music. Culled from hundreds of hours of archival footage including that of Doomsday cults, iconic political figures, and global fundamentalist movements, Xanadu tweaks, condenses and re-frames modern events into seconds-long image bites, representing a history of apocalyptic thought as a series of MTV-style music videos within a setting reminiscent of a discotheque. Do sweet dreams of suicide cults, mass annihilation, genocide and the Apocalypse all become part of a self-fulfilling prophecy? Set to saccharin dance tracks, the Xanadu videos suggest that humanity is not apathetic about its own demise, but on the contrary - it secretly desires it!
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