Social distancing as a cooperation accelerator

The times of social distancing can also serve as a catalyst for international cooperation, as the latest music video “Davison“ by Detroit Underground™ mastermind Kero shows. For the Detroit (USA) based techno label, Joëlle Snaith, Christoph Grünberger and Florian Renner created a video while working remotely which reflects the depressing lockdown situation that prevailed in April 2020.

Groups of figures, created in the Renaissance period and conceived as a compositional unit since antiquity, are brutally separated - torn apart.

Laocoön faces a more powerful and invisible enemy today, the virus. In the lockdown, in isolation, Apollo’s gaze is ultimately broken, always wandering into the distance.

By virtue of unity, the protagonists grow by the restrictions. Liberation is the ascent, the common overcoming of the threat in a newly created formation.

Parallels in the storyline branch this work even further and let it break out to Ireland, where the agency “The Tenth Man“ co-founded by Richard Seabrooke, publishes a similarly themed video entitled “The Phoenix“.

Credits:

Joëlle Snaith (@joellesnaith) - Remix & Editing
Christoph Grünberger (@christophgruenberger) - Concept & Visuals
Florian Renner - Renderings & Animation