For the last three decades, we have « won the war » of destruction : the biosphere, getting too alternated, is no longer able to renew, indicating our entrance in an era characterized by a huge impact of humans on their environment. Such a brutality on the planet can be explained by dynamics of expulsion. They are a face of contemporary capitalism which has evolved since the 1980’s from an « inclusive » system to « expulsive logics ».
a place where the body wanders, though, an uninhabited space. As a geocide, Maasvlakte allows us to experiment a human body that can’t touch or feel the ground. Deprived of any way of communication with this territory, we can only contemplate the disaster, the MEASURELESSNESS, and the impossibility of emerging urbanity.
MAASVLAKTE appears as one of these territories. An an excrescence, a tumor, it is shaping EXURBIA:
EROTICISM generates the MEASURE, becoming a weapon against EXURBIA.
FIG.24 ‘MEGAPORTS’ EXHIBITION Personal work exhibited, Paris Malaquais @Anne Lemieuvre
FIG.25 FINAL INSTALLATION ON SITE :
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New territories emerged from this global system, in which extreme conditions, or expulsions, take place. They are emptied of all their constitutive elements to serve intensive exploitations : local populations, local economic systems, fauna and flora are expelled from their own life spaces, becoming « uninhabitants ». Lands and waters, severely damaged, shape holes in the biosphere.
Within EXURBIA, our body stands like a stranger, and becomes the weapon of a SILENT UPRISING. Indeed, our own body generates an organic Territoriality: the act of MEASURING through an artistic act (fig.33) expresses the UPRISING. Though, creating such a Territoriality by the gesture suggests an erotic relationship with the uninhabitable place, which finally becomes inhabited.
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