on nomadism
"For me nomadism is an absolute and profound dialogue between physical and virtual realities. And it's one of the most deepest reason for me to understand state called immersion which is the state of consciousness where an immersant’s awareness of physical self is transformed by being surrounded in an engrossing environment; often artificial, creating a perception of presence in a non-physical world."
"For me, nomadism is to be creative whilst beeing inspired by 'the other': other cultures, other people, other nature, other languages, other environments. Nomadism is a mobility without limits, and at the same time keeping up with all your tasks and duties thanks to an ubiquitous online connection."
"I explore the theme of the nomadism perhaps most traditionally through a focus on non-linear experiences of place, geography, and interpretation. I am interested in generating and collecting data that represents the marginal, or which points to the periphery and claims it as significant. I am drawn to programmes and methods as much as I am to what is random and unpredictable. This is an important aspect to my practice: to trust in artistic research and to be open to the unknown."
"Nomadism is mobility, impermanence, being transient yet able to survive on any means. Adapted to nowadays lifestyle-- a modern nomad is an ephemeral node, part of a larger network, wandering and seeking subsequent solutions of creation and survival."
"Traveling nowadays is usually for work, pleasure and curiosity, as well relocating on places where the quality of living is better and gives more opportunities. Unfortunately in the reality more often people move to different places to escape from poverty, war and other disasters provoked by the nature or human activities. This brings the question how people can survive as nomads, how they will keep their culture and how they adapt to the hosting environment. The rise of nationalism and xenophobia is partly a result of the cultural differences and conflicts but mainly because of the afraid to move and to experience changes. Probably the artists are on the frontier of global nomadism and its conflict zones with the settled communities."
"The word “nomadism” to me means accumulating more and more visual, spatial, and personal empathy for different parts of the world - what makes them unique, similar, complicated. It also means letting the activity travel and multi-sited living push the edges of my perception and identity."
"Traditionally, nomads had no permanent residence travelling from location to location in pursuit of sustenance. Nomadism implies that an attention to annual cycles, weather and the migration of other species is required to sustain existence. This maps to the contemporary condition but is applied instead to the economic, cultural and social flows, networks and resources necessary to survive in a globalized information and service based economy. As a design studio, rootoftwo has pursued nomadic strategies with its projects. Whithervanes, as an example, makes apparent the anxiety-building nature of the news media that garners attention by promoting spectacle and extreme positions over reasoned judgement."
"One important thread of my research is how failure, conflict and systems of control leave its impression on the human landscape. These topics know many different manifestations and appearances everywhere. From my practice I always have to deal with the fact I'm partly a tourist, a bystander. Here, my aim is to create a condition where the audience is encouraged to engage themselves with the topics and from that, submerge in an experience and learn about their positions. Sometimes nomadism is a notion of traveling, it always is the move from one perspective to one other."
"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.”"
"My practice predominantly influenced by events in the Middle East, the nomadism at play is of a temporal and narrative kind. With the present tense suspended by instability and political tension, the personal and national psyche oscillates between nostalgia and ambition, past and future. Regional culture is increasingly defined in terms of its absence and uprooting. Also in perpetual exile is the notion of historical fact, yielding to politically favourable narratives influenced by myth, fiction and outright fabrications."