When Tacit Divisions are Totalizing and Individualizing
Channel: Studio CNS / Counter Narrative Society
Date: 2011-07-16

(Dedicated to the Prisoner Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay State Prison...and the growing movement that is fighting divisions, isolation, dislocation, alienation, torture) | http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/ | July 2011

About this video: 

When Tacit Divisions are Totalizing and Individualizing

May 2011
Live Art & Video from the series UNPACKING THE WEIGHT 

This live action was the 2nd work of a three part Performative Thesis Presentation in May 18, 2011. The action started at the Lower Lever of the stairwells (the basement) between the old and new Media Lab at MIT. I distributed an artist-book and recited a poem I wrote specifically for the occasion and space titled "Tacit Divisions are Totalizing and Individualizing". 

I used this space because acoustically and architecturally, the cavernous and crude concrete qualities of the space resemblances the cruel environment of the modern prison while the upward and downward circular motion resemblance the "dark to light" myth -- an underlying perspective that appears everywhere in the social-spatial politics of this capitalist society. The space serves as a metaphor for the tacit divisions I have experienced from living in a society of control where those with material privilege are often house in spaces of opulence and those who have nothing may ended up in places that are harsh and inhumane.


This work is part of an long-term project titled "...when the invisible punishing machine is everywhere... The Weight I Carry with Me", which is archived at

http://thecounternarrativesociety.org/


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