Future Communities. The name of The Father, In Memoriam.Installation/performance/video.

“The Temporary Autonomous Zone is a microcosm. The TAZ in an encampment of guerrilla ontologists. Mysticism has something we need….To rediscover the more archaic and yet more post-industrial possibility of the band….” Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey.

As the specter of the economic collapse looms, we enter yet another phase in the progression, or some might say regression, of human existence. Perspectives shifts with altered expectations, uncertainty haunts our visions of the distant faraway infinity but certainty pervades our immediacy with guaranteed financial meltdown, a result of the adverse reaction to a century of the burgeoning model of capital. Disintegrating, crumbling, decomposing of an economy reflects not only failed models of finance, but models of society as a whole, of modern civilization as we know with its tendency in a value system that treasures material, capital, strife, poverty and war to love, community, cultural wealth and imagination.

The prevailing climate permeates Future Communities – a living art installation leading eventually to a film, based on an interest in exploring future models of community life and new mental landscapes suggesting a post-human psychological scenario. Existence as creative resistance. One of the ideas this project explores is the notion of pre-oedipal nostalgia, the returning to a pre-lingual stage of development where individuality disappears. This idea is portrayed by the performers´ bodies being covered with a gelatinous substance, seemingly melting unanimously into a unified field of consciousness.

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