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if you want to see some spaces and objects where I was involved
if you want to text me
if you want to check some formalities
– tom :)
(Re-)Production and its Discontents
Installation, 2024
In exploring societal reproduction and the media’s repetitive regime, I experienced moments of inner distancing—separating my physical and emotional connection to others and to the themes I examined. This process revealed personal tensions—stages of belonging, loss, detachment, and numbness—that I sought to reflect upon.
My inquiry began with questions about otherness and social value—how judgments are formed aesthetically or economically. These interactions raised questions about societal practices of purification and alienation within a neoliberal context. I recognized my own consciousness turning judgmental, highlighting how societal constraints shape perception—starting with my relationship to space, bodies, and worth. Amidst a landscape of ideas—or their absence—anger crackled in. My eye and mind became the points of disconnection, revealing how information and categorization reinforce societal norms. I found myself becoming mechanical, reducing my identity to what I know, silencing nuance, and slipping into logical passivity. The search for the subtle in-between—my own perspective versus external rationality—is the focus of this work.
How do individual efforts to change relate to larger structures? Where is space for genuine reflection and agency? Recognizing these pressures is essential to reclaim control. Numbness signaled self-alienation, which I sought to challenge by shifting perspectives.
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Links
https://izk.tugraz.at/semesters/winter-semester-2023-2024/reproduction-and-its-discontents/