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___PROTOTYPE ---- ON THE MATTER OF LIBERTY

 

 

PROTOTYPE shows some of the cracks of deeply rooted ideas in Western societies which predetermined, restricted or coerced the concept of liberty within different aspects of life. The project comprises a trilogy which is unfolded along three coordinates: time, space and body. Each coordinate refers to a "prototypical idea" [prototype is an early sample or model built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from] about how is embedded the category "liberty" as an aim only possible to become reality in capitalist neoliberal societies:

PROTO-TIME: Videotime Archive [2012]
Time Archive refers to the temporal structure we are submitted to without regard for individual temporality; conditioning and homogenizing social temporality for the benefit of the neo-liberal machine.

PROTO-SPACE: Dance of Paradoxes [2010-11]
Dance of Paradoxes deals with the concept of liberty as an utopian space. Etymologically Utopia means the place that doesn´t exist. Dance of Paradoxes draws the utopian space as expectation space through mathematics history and geometry history. Mathematics and geometry invent space which only exists in the ideal realm of representation, of signs and formal symbols.

PROTO-BODY: Monkey Woman [2010-12]
Monkey Woman develops a proposition concerning the instrumentalisation of nature, animal and vegetable, for human benefit. The objective is to show a parallel process within the construction of the concept of the individual and individuality which demands the space of liberty. And how the concepts of individual and individuality are used as instruments to subordinate the natural environment to a quantitative revenue depending on human value.