notes on navigating hegemonic realities
[video & images below ︎︎︎]
Archive of violences, bodies and migrations, stained by the crimes of inhospitality, the contemporary existence of the Mediterranean Sea has been widely narrated as if solely characterised by evergrowing migratory flows. Seas of people on the move, as the mainstream media spectacularized in their xenophobic portraits.
In a capitalistic designed reality, Global North rules through narrative constructs, framed representations able to convey ways of interpreting and understanding the world. And it therefore informs and addresses the ways this very world (an arbitrary reality) should be inhabited and interacted with.
As the Mediterranean Sea became increasingly subject to the pollution of hegemonic narratives, necropolitics and geopolitics grow in their ability to rule over its waters and the bodies there to be found: the instrumentalization of the Sea comes in force to ‘suspend the life’ of ‘lesser valuable’ categories, directly questioning their right to be human.
Mare Incognitum explores the dynamics and the narratives that build and allow hegemonic systems to thrive. The materialisation of the research takes place as a spatial combination of video installation and symbolic props where the viewer is asked to experience a narration that questions the very genesis of mediterranean realities. Positioned at one end of the installation, the viewer is confronted with large scale footage of mediterranean portraits, whilst the view is partially impaired and interrupted by the presence of stacked and fictitious amphorae, symbolically introducing a more intimate and oppressed scale of bodies.
[work still progress]
Graduation project, the Critical Inquiry Lab, Design Academy Eindhoven, June 2021.
Exhibit at DAE GS’21; Dutch Design Week (DDW’21); Beursgebouw | DAE; Eindhoven (NL), 2021.
Media:
– 4m-wide video projection;
– scale 1:1 amphorae reproductions x3;
– scale 1:1 waste reproductions x9;
– sound.
Archive of violences, bodies and migrations, stained by the crimes of inhospitality, the contemporary existence of the Mediterranean Sea has been widely narrated as if solely characterised by evergrowing migratory flows. Seas of people on the move, as the mainstream media spectacularized in their xenophobic portraits.
In a capitalistic designed reality, Global North rules through narrative constructs, framed representations able to convey ways of interpreting and understanding the world. And it therefore informs and addresses the ways this very world (an arbitrary reality) should be inhabited and interacted with.
As the Mediterranean Sea became increasingly subject to the pollution of hegemonic narratives, necropolitics and geopolitics grow in their ability to rule over its waters and the bodies there to be found: the instrumentalization of the Sea comes in force to ‘suspend the life’ of ‘lesser valuable’ categories, directly questioning their right to be human.
Mare Incognitum explores the dynamics and the narratives that build and allow hegemonic systems to thrive. The materialisation of the research takes place as a spatial combination of video installation and symbolic props where the viewer is asked to experience a narration that questions the very genesis of mediterranean realities. Positioned at one end of the installation, the viewer is confronted with large scale footage of mediterranean portraits, whilst the view is partially impaired and interrupted by the presence of stacked and fictitious amphorae, symbolically introducing a more intimate and oppressed scale of bodies.
[work still progress]
Graduation project, the Critical Inquiry Lab, Design Academy Eindhoven, June 2021.
Exhibit at DAE GS’21; Dutch Design Week (DDW’21); Beursgebouw | DAE; Eindhoven (NL), 2021.
Media:
– 4m-wide video projection;
– scale 1:1 amphorae reproductions x3;
– scale 1:1 waste reproductions x9;
– sound.
[︎︎︎©Doi De Luise, 2021]