PARADOX OF THE NON-SPACE: Humanity in Homogeneous Spaces
PARADOX OF THE NON-SPACE: Humanity in Homogeneous Spaces
Publisher Bridget Moreen Leslie
Author Bridget Moreen Leslie
This book is a collection of essays and performative text exploring Non-Spaces. The paradoxical version of theorist Marc Auge's, Non-Places. He believed these sites were sites of anonymity, were a-historical and lacked social connection. These sites included airports, shopping centers, highways, waiting rooms, etc. I believe that these sites are anything but. The seemingly un-interesting space of transience and non-thought is a space that evokes the human body, identity, and subjectivity because they are institutional spaces that we must visit. They are choice-less places; the social keys to participating in the free world. As we evolve as a society, these overlooked spaces stand out more to me. The possibility that even the smallest site or gesture might have an effect on the globalized whole. To only consider one's own relationship to transitional sites is to leave out important groups of people. To leave out the underlying connection of human-ness that we all share.
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Author Bridget Moreen Leslie
This book is a collection of essays and performative text exploring Non-Spaces. The paradoxical version of theorist Marc Auge's, Non-Places. He believed these sites were sites of anonymity, were a-historical and lacked social connection. These sites included airports, shopping centers, highways, waiting rooms, etc. I believe that these sites are anything but. The seemingly un-interesting space of transience and non-thought is a space that evokes the human body, identity, and subjectivity because they are institutional spaces that we must visit. They are choice-less places; the social keys to participating in the free world. As we evolve as a society, these overlooked spaces stand out more to me. The possibility that even the smallest site or gesture might have an effect on the globalized whole. To only consider one's own relationship to transitional sites is to leave out important groups of people. To leave out the underlying connection of human-ness that we all share.
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Tierra y Libertad / Little México
Tierra y Libertad / Little México
Publisher Light Factory Publications
Author Carlos Colín and Lois Klassen
Tierra y Libertad / Little México is the latest issue in the artist project, Reading the Migration Library (launch - October, 2020). It is comprised of a poster/booklet, a pamphlet with a conversation between Carlos Colín and Lois Klassen, and a coloured paper band that holds the components together. The bilingual poster/booklet (flutter-fold) is designed to be included in the mobile Spanish language free library that Carlos Colín helped to set up for Mexican Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) in the Fraser Valley, near Vancouver, Canada. Boxes of books are available on farms for TFWs to borrow and enjoy. These mini-bibliotecas were initiated in conjunction with Colín’s exhibition, Little México, that took place at The Reach Gallery Museum in 2019. A statement about Dignidad Migrante Society is included at the end of the conversation.
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Author Carlos Colín and Lois Klassen
Tierra y Libertad / Little México is the latest issue in the artist project, Reading the Migration Library (launch - October, 2020). It is comprised of a poster/booklet, a pamphlet with a conversation between Carlos Colín and Lois Klassen, and a coloured paper band that holds the components together. The bilingual poster/booklet (flutter-fold) is designed to be included in the mobile Spanish language free library that Carlos Colín helped to set up for Mexican Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) in the Fraser Valley, near Vancouver, Canada. Boxes of books are available on farms for TFWs to borrow and enjoy. These mini-bibliotecas were initiated in conjunction with Colín’s exhibition, Little México, that took place at The Reach Gallery Museum in 2019. A statement about Dignidad Migrante Society is included at the end of the conversation.
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