(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/