Tuesday 5 March 2013

Homeseekers

In an increasingly digitized world cultures are concomitantly changing at the pace of the processes. In the last twenty to thirty years' we have been witnessing to a collision of past and present on partial narratives, the other's representations, and interruptions in the fiction and reality narratives. [...]
[...] Within this succession of changes, their is a moment in time that I recognise quite easily. It is when the motivation to pursue the captivating possibilities embodied by the moment, and the involvement it brings are realistically out of my context, even when having the strength and ability to successfully overcome the challenge. Because, when you look around, at pictures, for instance, such as videos, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures from different periods in the history of civilization, i.e. art works, the depiction by those are of well specified and defined communities. It is not an occasional pick in to that universe by the artist, without compromise, neither a contingent creation about the dynamics, force and power resembling or being an equivalent to the universe shown. It is it in it's simplest form. A door is open to an particular and unique cultural universe and an invitation is made. It could have been to M., C., to T., to C. or to anyone that came along. Come on in! However, as technology changes, so those communities also change. They went from local, to global to virtual universes. As those communities change so does our world. In the last four decades I have learn that the world has become so diverse that it has become increasingly harder to define cultural communities visually! But I will keep on trying to communicate and inform about them with the use of sensorial experiences, like words, images and events.

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