Lauren Elder : TRIBE 2 TRIBE

19 Sep-26 Oct 2013

Overview

We walk/talk through the desert, the desert walks/talks through us. It is very important, as every tribesman has known, to remember the water bottle when walking/talking in the desert (of the real). Zhuangzi knew, and Thermodynamics has taught; myself and the water bottle are recycled at the same time. There is no desert, there is no me, there is no water bottle. Except that one can come to the conclusion that recycling is a false myth, because to not recycle is impossible (everything is always already being recycled and renewed). Then what is the possibility of a cut? Can something ever truly be severed? If there is a balance in the universe (i.e. culture) then this must include the possibility of unbalance, and therefore a cut. In the topology of our current material moment, it is a socio-linguistic question mark followed by a splice, and then truly severed. But severed from what? These are the things I cannot live without. Exhibition statement by Micah Schippa.