TOC remixes for upcoming themes
Thursday, October 5th, 2006 at 21:24We have been in the lab this week trying to come up with a remix of Transmigration of Cinema to present at some venues and festivals coming up in November and beyond.
One scenario in particlar is for a Czech exhibition and festival of political art which will explore “checkpoints” - those places where “an inspection or investigation is performed” - fueled by the contexts of geograhphical and political borders, points of exchange, and points of exclusion, “a selectively-permeable membrane between regimes, between economics, between beliefs”.
A fully charged engine of possibilities given the additional guest curators from Israel, Mexico, Moldavia, and Czech republic who are reaching far into both the local Czech issues and the global waters to stir the deep analyses.
Because this poses such a giant leap, we thought we’d try thinking aloud about this, or as loud as the “digital bantustan” allows. Yes, that’s the phrase that was triggered by transposing our mass media themes ( and the dead skins of cinema, those luxurious pelts of 20th century arts ) upon those troublesome and concrete border scenarios. We in these softly lit cubicle glows, pondering from keyboards and flat screens, that which is ripping at the seams of the seperated living breathing human lives. We who poke our heads out from the windows of theoretical digital streams to gawk at the bulging, flexing armies and border patrols amassing on the hillsides, or those corporations like jackals around a fresh carcass, surrounding things like water supplies with a variety of “convenient” plastic packaging, barbed wire fences, and/or financial power plays.
And it is entirely essential to note that today marks the Bushmen’s snarling new signature for a Bill to spend $1.2 billion to construct hundreds of miles of new walls and fences between the U.S and Mexico.
to be cont.