{"id":4546,"date":"2026-09-17T07:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:37:33","slug":"christopher-kulendran-thomas-peace-core-surround-kunstmuseum-bonn-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/christopher-kulendran-thomas-peace-core-surround-kunstmuseum-bonn-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Kulendran Thomas \u2014 Peace Core (surround), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Made in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, Peace Core (surround) is an immersive, multichannel video installation of infinite duration. Its system reassembles in real time American television footage broadcast in the moments before September 11, 2001, so that no definitive edit can close this historical eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The algorithm is trained on the compositional methods of vaporwave and early corecore edits on TikTok. Digital nostalgia becomes a critical instrument: the work connects the end of Pax Americana, the \u201cWar on Terror,\u201d and the crushing of the Tamil independence movement in Sri Lanka, the country the artist\u2019s family left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image: Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Peace Core (surround), 2026, installation view at Kunstmuseum Bonn. Photo: David Ertl; image courtesy the artist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fragmentation-video\" style=\"position:relative;width:100%;max-width:500px;height:680px;margin:1.5rem auto;overflow:hidden\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkunstmuseumbonn%2Fposts%2F1640056531466387%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=500&#038;height=680\" title=\"Christopher Kulendran Thomas \u2014 Peace Core (surround), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2026) \u2014 Facebook\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;inset:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\"><\/iframe><\/div><p class=\"fragmentation-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kunstmuseumbonn\/posts\/1640056531466387\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kunstmuseumbonn\/posts\/1640056531466387\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AI endlessly re-edits American television aired just before 9\/11, extending the final minutes of a presumed political innocence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}