Nick Fix, Billy Keidel & Gabrielle Stefanko | The Collapse of an Industry

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Nick Fix, Billy Keidel, & Gabrielle Stefanko The Collapse of an Industry: Post Christianity in the Midwest Our project seeks to examine Christianity in the Midwest, specifically its role in manufacturing identity, culture, and behavior. The midwest is unique for its extraordinary ordinariness; It’s landmarks, events, destinations, history, and people are all comparably uninteresting… Or so it may seem on the surface. Behind the monolith label that is “The Midwest” lies a loosely defined region with incredibly complex social, cultural, and political relationships. Religion in the Midwest is equally as complex; While not having the devout base that the bible belt has, or the progressive base the coasts do, religion in the midwest falls where you think it would - in the middle. It is instead used primarily as a function of community, where those who believe or choose to practice it can expand their world outside of their immediate surroundings. Our project seeks to create a speculative scenario where the institutional components of religion, specifically christianity, in the midwest are stripped away and the social and cultural components remain.


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