Knoll + Cella As you have remarked in your artist's statement, you are "neither refugees nor migrants or expatriats, but you're rootless all the same". This has reminded me the concept of non-place elaborated by French anthropothat this would sound a bit naif, I'm wondering if one of the hidden aims of your Art could be to search the missing significance to a nonplace... Could ever the negotiation between locality and globality lead to a non-conflictual concept of re-territoliarization or should we need to make do with a "happy deterritorialization"?
like that he uses the methodologies he developed in his West African field trips to do his field work in his native Paris, and further, juxtaposing his own impressions with those from the field of literature to contextualize his work. We look forward to reading his "ethno novels". The nonwithout familiar attributes, or sense of belonging", we would call corporate space, space owned and used by entities without bodies, misnamed corporations. These tragically, rapidly, expanding corporate zones obliterate culture. We are less and less interested in photographing in the US for this reason.
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Considering non-space more literally, translated from u-topos, utopias do play an important role in our lives. Transart is in fact a utopian school. Many of our colleagues and students gravitate there for the welcome degree of independence it affords them in this state, as artists and theorists, especially those straddling cultures, dealing with topics around the international diaspora and post-colonialism, foreignness/otherness and liminality. Place is always of interest and therefore controlled, so there will always be conflict, re-territorialization won't help that. We are fortunate enough to have passports and permanent visas to several places. Many nomadic groups, like the Romani, are deprived of their way of being in the world without them. Maybe we need not make do but relish every mo43