Indoor Sunlight
2019
Video
Edition of 3 plus AP

The work explores the disparities between utopian ideals and local realities, and how technology shapes affective experience and future visions.

“Hanna’s Indoor Sunlight video includes fragments of recordings made on journeys to utopian settlements, but it consists primarily of materials gathered online over a period of years, culled from industrial film, corporate branding communications, cinema, television and urban design visualisations. Several clips involve direct encounters with unfamiliar technologies, which are vaguely sinister or overtly comical… Artists, designers and planners seem to figure in Hanna’s video primarily as mediators of technological change, charged with the task of path-finding.”

Connolly, Maeve. Profile - Michael Hanna. Art Monthly. June 2020