The trace, the land, the name (Valid until 30 June 2010-Day 114)
How to remain unmarked in the digital space? How your body to skip the representation, the numeric data and remain unmarked? How to cope with Phellan warning that: ” there is a real power in remaining unmarked; and there are serious limitations to representation as a political goal.” (1993, p.6) When the process of marking, of dividing is actually forming my identity.
I come from a country that is divided. As long as I remember people around me talk about divisions, splits and marks remained from the process of discontinuity. I come from a country that have a divided name. And maybe that is why my body always feels fragmentary,trapped in liminal spaces. That is why I am always questioning the borders physiognomy and I try to challenge their accessibility, permeability and potential as contact and communication zones. Through series of videos I will map the borders as digital lines into my everyday life, as points of creative assemblage, rather than points of division. Line=border;line=words;line=trace. Only through trajectories of marking, the pain of searching for origins will be released.
“The more memory we store on data banks, the more the past is sucked into the orbit of the present, ready to be called up on the screen. A sense of historical continuity or, for that matter, discontinuity, both of which depend on a before and an after, gives way to the simultaneity of all times and spaces readily accessible in the present” ( Huyssen, 1995).
I am enjoying the development of this work on lines, borders, bodies etc. I love the writing which I think can go deeper into each aspect and the fragments of work really begin to feel like pieces of a whole!
Thank you Jane. I hope that together with my diary and my drawings, it will make perfect sense. And I agree, still a lot to work on, but I can see a LINE
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