Atomino 2010

Peter Eramian was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. In 2007 he graduated from Goldsmiths College London with a first-class B.A. (Hons) degree in Fine Art and History of Art. He recently completed his M.A. in Philosophy at Birkbeck London with an awarded distinction for his dissertation on Nietzsche’s philosophy of life-enhancement.

Currently, besides his obsessive enthusiasm for Shoppinghour, Peter is a contributing editor for Naked Punch journal and working hard honing his technical video skills in a 6 month residency at Fabrica, Italy. In October he is set to return to London to begin his PhD in Law (with emphasis on political philosophy regarding human rights and education) at Birkbeck. Peter’s creative practise lies in capturing the cliché as it surfaces through a raw documentary style treatment wherein certain truths are twisted and put into question, with emphasis on representations of the apocalypse in popular culture.

Here we present his work Utopia from the Disaster Series

This scene from the film When Worlds Collide (1951) is composed with a shot of the World Trade Centre in ruins from the film Armageddon (1998). Though fictional, it closely resembles original footage from 9/11. Fiction becomes a startling reality and reality is left in shock. The scene’s operatic closing scene shows the lead couple and child marveling in awe at actual footage of the Twin Towers collapsing.

Know more about him at Peter Eramian Official Site