Exhibition featuring "Thresholds" in New York City

Performance of "Thresholds" by Ensemble Dal Niente included in New York exhibition "(this is not a) music video".

"Thresholds" uses Jan de Bont's 1994 action film "Speed" to explore themes of late-capitalism and climate catastrophe. Today, we are held hostage by the pursuit of economic security, increasingly working more grueling hours for fewer wages, with this process perpetuating the inevitability of climate catastrophe. Perhaps a comparison could be made with the process outlined above and the plot of "Speed," in which a domestic terrorist arms a city bus with an explosive programmed to detonate if the speed of the bus drops below 50 miles per hour. The explosive device forces the bus to drive faster and faster, holding on to the shallow hope of survival despite the inevitability of the vehicle running out of fuel.

(this is not a) music video celebrates the diligent and difficult work that artists accomplished throughout the pandemic. Projects often years in the making were abruptly put on hold, canceled, and at best, re-imagined for a virtual universe.