Everything Ends in Chaos (2012)

Ilona Gaynor makes an adaptation of her graduation project Everything Ends in Chaos, a mixed media collection of objects, narrative texts and films that reveal the intricate trajectories of an artificially designed and then reverse engineered economically viable ‘Black Swan event’. This is an event in human history that was unprecedented and unexpected at the point in time it occurred. Gaynor’s work draws upon the practice of insurance with the means to investigate and underpin the moment at which economic facts become fiction and vice versa. But can we really insure against unpredictability? What does an economic collapse actually look like? And how does it feel to witness such chaos?

Ilona Gaynor is a designer and artist, determined to explore the different ways of telling a compelling story. In her art she makes use of rhetoric and cinematic tropes in order to construct complexly precise plots, schemes and narrative texts.