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Rituals as social technologies
Contemporary art examines rituals as tools for cohesion, transformation, and meaning-making.
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Journey of a Piece of Soil
Ritualized care for a termite nest stages devotion as an embodied technology of consciousness, where the rational subject confronts the opaque and the sacred persists through uncompromising, repetitive practice. Positioned within contemporary shamanistic and animist-inflected aesthetics, the work critiques secular urban rationalism by treating installation and performance as mediums through which belief, ghosts, and sensate experience reconfigure collective engagement and cultural production.
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Our Worlds Are at War
Indigenous cosmologies are mobilized as a counter-epistemology to Western modernity’s foundational split between “nature” and “culture,” exposing how scientific rationality, property regimes, and extractivist development produce the Anthropocene as a spiritual-material war against relational life. Krenak’s performative and oral modes of address (from mourning body-paint to shamanic narration) function as biopolitical and aesthetic tactics that reframe forests as living monuments/archives, indict colonial-state violence and urban “sustainability” as ideological traps, and propose perspectivism, reciprocity, and world-making storytelling as practices that defer apocalypse.
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After the Social Media Hype: Dealing with Information Overload
Post-hype social media critique shifts from diagnosing harms to a Foucauldian ethics of the self: devising practices, rituals, and “technologies of the self” that can metabolize perpetual streams of attention capture without defaulting to either ascetic withdrawal or compulsive participation. Set against neoliberal crisis and platform centralization, the text triangulates anthropotechnic training (Sloterdijk), craft/skill (Sennett), and media literacy/“crap detection” (Rheingold) to argue for disciplined infotention and politicized collective action as counterweights to the Eternal Now, boredom, and managed restlessness of networked life.
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Soft Staycation (Gaze Track Edit)
A staged marketing study turns gaze-tracking into an aesthetic apparatus, exposing the automated, extractive logic of consumer spectatorship while materially re-inscribing attention as flickering data on an advertising-grade LED screen. Positioned within post-Internet and entrepreneurial art lineages, the work treats online circulation and participatory feedback as an expanded exhibition space, critiquing platformed labor, public/private collapse, and the techno-social infrastructures that monetize looking.
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