Wednesday 7 October 2015

The Global Community as an exercise in the organisation of space (& hypocrisy)

Why are we allowed to pick and choose when we are a part of a global community and when we are not? 

The internet has given us a sense of boundless access to knowledge and limitless communication, yet in crisis we revert to our physical borders; box ourselves in and others out. 

Even the open range of the wild west could not sustain the wanderlust. The invention of barbed wire put an end to the right to roam. We constantly implement systems by which is organise, structure and remove space; placing it within a concept of 'ownership'.

Why do we feel the need to structure society/our daily lives in this way? To create a uniformity that doesn't allow for individualism, understanding or creativity.



Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
They're all made out of ticky-tacky,
And they all look just the same.




The media response to the refugee crisis is removed digitally from the very physical experience of the people who's story it actually is. Does this say something on a broader level about our removal from physical experience through the digital medium? It also brings us back to the paradox of acceptance of the global community in its digital capacity but our avoidance and steadfast adherence to physical borders when the global community becomes a (problematic) physical entity. 

A repetitive ritual that can be explored within printmaking

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