ROT | Fotofinish / Fatih Aydogdu (TR/AT)
Fatih Aydogdu calls for a thinking and sharing platform about the world wide politics with the reel refugees through the symbolic act of the Refugee Olympic Team. For the fist time in the Olympic history, The Refugee Olympic Team [ROT] competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016, as independent Olympic participants. Fatih Aydogdu first develops a platform to discuss the existence and significance of ROT from multiple points of view and then, he creates an endless moving time line by sharing different opinions to be appeared through a photo-finish with different results per loop.
"From the outset we must differ- entiate between what is called ‘nomad thought’, and the use of nomadism in a literal and/or metaphorical sense to theorize an empirical reality. The first adopt a mode of thinking about postmodern subjectivities and identities that seeks to disengage itself from earlier conceptions of identities as fixed, authentic, and rooted. The second use actual nomadism as an exemplary way of life in order to theorize the influence of (mobile) media technologies on social phenomena."