THE PROJECT IS ABOUT PATHWAYS, CONNECTIONS AND NETWORKS: EXISTING AND EMERGING ONES. IT IS THROUGH CONNECTIONS AND NETWORKS THAT MEETINGS AND COLLISIONS OCCUR. THESE ARE AREAS AND MOMENTS WHERE THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS ARE SHARED OR DISMISSED, PRODUCING RIPPLES OF AFFECT. THESE AFFECTS MAY PRODUCE NOTHING OF “MERIT” OR SIGNIFICANCE. BUT HERE AND THERE, LIKE A THROW OF A DICE, CHANCE OCCURRENCE MAY PRODUCE DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE; AND YES: SINGULARITIES - SUCH THAT THE OLD MAY BE REFRESHED OR MORPHED INTO NEW EMERGENCE. FOR NIETZSCHE, THIS IS TRUTH. FOR TRUTH IN NIETZSCHE IS NOT RESIDING IN IDENTITY; MATCHING AND AUTHENTICATING ONE PRODUCT OR A COPY TO AN ORIGINAL AND JUDGING IT. HE IS NOT AN IDEALIST THINKER WHERE PRODUCTION IS FASHIONED AND JUDGED TO PERFECT MODELS EXISTING IN SOME ETERNAL SPACE. FOR HIM, IT IS BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL/ CORRECTNESS OR INCORRECTNESS/ RIGHT OR WRONG . THESE ARE CULTURAL OR VIRTUOUS VALUES LEGITIMIZED BY SOCIETAL PROCESSES OF WHICH INTEREST GROUPS EXERT THEIR INFLUENCE THROUGH DISCOURSE AND LANGUAGE. BUT THE QUESTION ASKED BY NIETZSCHE IS THE INTERSUBJECTIVE EXCHANGE OR OBJECT’S INTRINSIC VALUE PRIOR TO THEM ACQUIRING ITS CULTURAL VALUE, STATUS OR MEANING. HENCE, NIETZSCHE SHIES AWAY FROM CODES, LANGUAGE OR IDENTITY. FOR HIM, IT IS ABOUT SENSE AND THE PRODUCTION OF SENSE PRIOR TO LANGUAGE, CODES AND IDENTITY. IT IS THEREFORE NOT SURPRISING TO HEAR WHAT NIETZSCHE HAD TO SAY ABOUT CONNECTIONS AND TRUTH. FOR IN MAKING CONNECTIONS, THE RESULTING DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE PRODUCES AFFECT/ SINGULARITIES. USING THE METAPHOR “WAY” AS PATHWAY, NIETZSCHE SAID HOW HE CAME TO HIS TRUTH. IT WAS CERTAINLY NOT BY ONE DEFINED WAY BUT THROUGH MANY WAYS - FOR THAT ONE WAY HAD NOT EXISTED OR HAD COME INTO BEING. READING IN BETWEEN THE LINES, THE PROJECT FOLLOWING NIETZSCHE IS AN EXPERIMENT OR A PROCESS INTO THE UNKNOWN SINCE NO DEFINED WAY EXISTED. THE PROJECT SITE IS CENTERED ON JURONG EAST MRT STATION. THE SITE IS BOUNDED BY JURONG EAST STREET 11, JURONG TOWN HALL ROAD, BOON LAY WAY AND JURONG EAST CENTRAL. AND TRUTH BE TOLD, THE PREVIOUS STUDIO DID WORK ON THIS AREA LAST SEMESTER. AND THEY PRODUCED AN “URBANISTIC” PLAN. THIS URBANISTIC PLAN DRIVES TO FACILITATE MOVEMENT AND CHANGE TO TURN WHATEVER THAT IS “PRIVATE” INTO A COMMONWEALTH. THE KEY TO THIS IS THE USE OF A PREDOMINANT STRUCTURE SO PERVASIVE THAT WHILE PROVIDNG STABILITY, THE STRUCTURE FACILITATES POSSIBLE OR POTENTIAL “CONNECTIONS”: CONNECTIONS ALL READY TO BLUR OR STAND READY TO PENETRATE THE PRIVATE BY THE COMMON. THE COMMON THEREFORE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PENETRATE INTO THE REALM OF THE PRIVATE AND COLONIZE IT. YOUR PROJECT IS TO EXPAND AND TAKE THIS AGENDA FURTHER INTO YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL PROJECT. YOU ARE TO PICK OR DEVISE A PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS YOU TO INVENT AND DRAW MORE CONNECTIONS ANALOGOUS TO RHIZOMES RUNNING ACROSS YOUR SITE, BLOCKS OR EVEN PARTIAL BLOCKS DEPENDING ON THE NATURE OF YOUR PROBLEM. - WONG CHONG THAI BOBBY, JANUARY 2017
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