The golden World
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- The golden World
- 2012
- color print
- 29,7 × 21 cm
This comic book project by Linda Bilda is based on J. P. Voyer’s 1976 text entitled “An investigation into the cause and the nature of the misery of people.” Linda Bilda pursues the question of whether the economy itself is reality, or perhaps much rather a system, coupled to power, that creates this reality in the first place. At the center of “The Golden World” stand a billion dollars, which the wealthy Rick Subisha has willed to friends following his death—with one stipulation: he or she who manages to profit the most from this capital within the space of one year is to receive it. The competition for the money begins, and it is at this point that Linda Bilda introduces the protagonists of her story:
John Ohneangst [His last name means: “without fear”, translator’s note], a Cambridge graduate who hopes to solve the world’s energy problems with alternative technologies; Hy Hunter, a stock broker; Gwen “Granny” Smith, whose plan entails abolishing human beings on Planet Earth in favor of plants; Francis Pax, a geneticist who works for agribusiness; Dora Parandella, the daughter of a pop star; Herodes Bosch, a body builder; and Monica Strauss-Alvarez, a pugnacious attorney from Paraguay. “The Golden World” is a destruction-laced chronology in which the theme of the economy comes together with the potentials and contradictions of our era to form a virtuosic comic book narrative.
John Ohneangst [His last name means: “without fear”, translator’s note], a Cambridge graduate who hopes to solve the world’s energy problems with alternative technologies; Hy Hunter, a stock broker; Gwen “Granny” Smith, whose plan entails abolishing human beings on Planet Earth in favor of plants; Francis Pax, a geneticist who works for agribusiness; Dora Parandella, the daughter of a pop star; Herodes Bosch, a body builder; and Monica Strauss-Alvarez, a pugnacious attorney from Paraguay. “The Golden World” is a destruction-laced chronology in which the theme of the economy comes together with the potentials and contradictions of our era to form a virtuosic comic book narrative.