{"id":83877,"date":"2022-11-30T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=83877"},"modified":"2023-10-02T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:04:34","slug":"melanie-bonajo-progress-vs-regress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/melanie-bonajo-progress-vs-regress","title":{"rendered":"MELANIE BONAJO PROGRESS VS. REGRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Progress vs. Regress <\/em>explores the influence of technological innovations on social relationships through the perspective of the elderly, who have experienced the most sudden and widespread industrial, technological and digital changes in the history of humankind. Through the protagonists\u2019 personal, intimate and touching stories the film portrays the needs, expectations and challenges of a generation that is trying to integrate in a society that is striving for constant progress, efficiency and speed. The film investigates how ideas of \u2018progress\u2019 affect attitudes towards labour, money, time and emotions. Embedded within it lies the story of how we, as a society, treat the elderly, who are often perceived as having no economic value, are not represented in our visual culture, and are marginalised. By trying out various playful and humorous experiments, Bonajo\u2019s film asks us to reshape our view of the elderly, while also questioning our own relationship with rapid technological advancements, information anxiety, and their effects on humans today.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, <em>Progress vs. Regress <\/em>is a film about how technological innovations have changed social relations and about how they radically alter practices of everyday life. It is about how human beings are being increasingly thrust into new forms of \u2018normality\u2019, about the fear of being left behind as one gets older, and how social media and technology put additional pressure on our ability to adapt to new situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress vs. Regress explores the influence of technological innovations on social relationships through the perspective of the elderly, who have experienced the most sudden and widespread industrial, technological and digital changes in the history of humankind. Through the protagonists\u2019 personal, intimate and touching stories the film portrays the needs, expectations and challenges of a generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83877"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86795,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83877\/revisions\/86795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}