Seecum's ruff draft
ON / METH / OD
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Ωhms & Ωhmens Ohms & Ohmens Ωhms & Ωhmens
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I have long been interrogating the possibilities of representation for such ideas, to make visible the unseen complex narratives which affect us all.
I have been trying to understand this through the emotions of apathy, from living in a position of over abundance, or to be overloaded with information and media - to understand the position in which we all face about being inactive on the political frontline. It’s trying to locate or understand our abilities to empathise and act - and in so many circumstances it feels like it is an overwhelming condition of our time to feel powerless, and to do nothing. Is this what freedom looks like...
The orientation of humanity can be considered as organic entities of electrical currents, from above the city scape and below on the ground - the synaptic grid like system of human construct conducts and connect us to one another. These connections can be seen as charges, of both positive and negative - we may pass through the border or be rejected, we may live lives of richness or through poverty - we may block one another from passing through capital or through.
The duality of readings, or the dual aspect to every argument ends in a static still stalemate where opposing conversations and subjective opinions end up in one cyclical argument. I’m interested in the ways to subvert of override this route - to butt our heads against the veins of a blockage, or a barricade. To disrupt the efficient currents of life, to question it’s fluid administration and to crumble away at the solid. In the end - adding friction to an already seemingly efficient current seems to be the only form of resistance in which one can take.
Last friday I vomited over my dinner plate, amidst conversation about the Israeli and Palestinian conflict in comparison to the horrendous score of the Brazil vs Germany match 7–1. I had too much to drink, a tobacco rush and was vehemently grossed out by our position to discuss with such conviction topics that were so far away with our limited mediated knowledge. Then the first course was served, the oily smell of the Thai food was the final push that sent me from sheer nauseas privilege to throwing up. Where do all these conversations go, if not just to show a gesture of empathy towards a group of people or political awareness over polite dinner conversations…
Power structures, societal imbalances and inequality have been persistent and ongoing themes in my work, with the political serving as the agenda, and purpose of my practice. However my main realisation over the past year was to understand the distant links that are formed between political matter and the manifestation of the work itself. I work as a material practitioner, creating these environments and assemblages which are populated by excess amounts of objects, bound tenuously together in precarious synthetic string. A population of excess mundanity - these objects work gravitationally together to balance themselves into a form of equilibrium. In it’s abundance - equality becomes key, a dichotomy of positive and negative - a stasis of apathy or non movement.
I’m trying to find ways to distill or break the circuit of a cycle of life, in some ways it’s a form of optimism - a belief that people want to engage if they were given time to do so. Light has become a recurring factor in my work. as I use it to mark the space, to create a zone. An environment of charged energies which rub up against one another, which have the potential possibility to produce a friction both negative and positive.
The static. The charge of the installation - is it in momentary stasis. How can these items become charged, or move into a moment of transference - of the positive and the negative, the pull and duality of every possible argument. Is this why the objects are suspended, held still for a moment - like floating words in the present which are there to be observed, to be reflected upon and to be interrogated?
Alfredo Jaar
Waalid Raad - The Atlas Group
frederick jameson. The commission for the year 2000 - The jetsons.
The translation of connections towards space and culture - and how to be pulled in by it. To speak of it, to see it and understand the pull of external forces which at first appear to govern us - whilst placing us in a realm of open space. towards understanding the concepts and to see the unseen, to experience the grey space - to understand the projections in which we belong to.
Came together to create these islands of thoughts, an assemblage or collage of ideas which float on an island marked out by light.
The coil around the inner tubings. The currents that run deeply into the system, and internal fabrics. How to remove the static - a pause. They’re quiet noisy pauses, or collections of cultural assemblages
The projections, electrical currents, magnetic pulls - governing forces and opposing ones. To distill it and suspend it to make it visible
Resistivity. Electrical resistance. Volume resistivity…if we make the ohm high then it’ll disconnect the power circuitry.
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- Action on the ground:
Action and Apathy
The translation of connections towards space and culture - and how to be pulled in by it. To speak of it, to see it and understand the pull of external forces which at first appear to govern us - whilst placing us in a realm of open space. Towards understanding the concepts and to see the unseen, to experience the grey space - to understand the projections in which we belong to.
The projections, electrical currents, magnetic pulls - governing forces and opposing ones. To distill it and suspend it to make it visible
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Text & Image
the hand held with the lightest sense of touch holding the stunted intimacy of the connection --- by and by yours abide
a momentary stasis, suspend my gesture ]hold my words[ my commitment supported by our structures
mid zones divided borderline
The air charged itself with its stillness,
the rotations of their world began to mobilise and their populated worlds slowly reawakened
in response to the long and carefully co-ordinated tasks that lay ahead.
The cogs, and well invested constructions of their agreements began to move swiftly and slowly towards its creation.