Upside_down_culture.cda

 

[Unintentional ad for Stranger Things + Netflix. It really is unavoidable in postmodernism.]

Physical matter.mp3

I made a wormhole diagram and put the model of the world we live in into the Stranger Things schema. It was a bit of fun during the crimbo-limbo boredom. I'm going to expand on this diagram. I made it into an art form (but going out on a limb to put it into an art exhibition is another kettle of fish). Keeping the ribbon panel at the top of the work is important because it gives an insight into the origin of the work - it came from an iPad. If I were to crop that bit out, it would be cut off from its roots. It also contains the date, so that it acts as the artwork's witness, as it came into existence at that time and place [albeit on iPad]. 

Quasi matter.mp3

I called it 'That's Y / Axis (After Stranger Things)', because the wormhole is vertical (Axis Y on graphs) - and in some sense is a hierarchy of some sort in this 'not so' new century, but it also acts as a pun for 'that's why'. I put 'art world: right side up', and it is symbolic for the form of the good. We were born in the upside-down (The bridge of the wormhole), so this world is all we've known. Kids were living in a dream that the world is full of possibilities, but is an illusion and they are kidnapped into dimension business by toy advertisements. The institutions we know that exist, are imitations of the form of the good, surrounded by monsters which came from dimension business. BANK's Ad men, the bad men find themselves there. 

The exotic matter (The wormhole wall) is the media that 'glue' our cultures together into a coherent form of journalism for the masses. Social media is the void outside the wormhole, where everything from the upside down is sucked into slop, as a consequence of the media being ruptured - due to cynicism of the news being an authentic source. (That car from Stranger Things prompted me to think back to someone's art exhibition called 'Pertinent Folly' as a reference to apophenia and cultural schemas, and they had a miniature toy car in the show, probably to criticise conspiracy theories...but it’s integral in the post-truth era, maybe they were criticising this era in relation to the renaissance). Maybe I’ll add algorithms and AI slop with the social media as the void on the wormhole diagram, because it’s the place where reasoning goes to die.

There's something pertinent about the series I made during MA Fine Art. I hid a lot of things in the blog I made back then, because of the failed blog in 2016. The copies of these blogs are supposed to be gone now because I erased them, but I don't know what happened to the other copies

The abyss or dimension business isn't inherently evil (it's just the chaotic universe and survival instinct - the desire to win), and is a necessary evil to earn money that applies to several levels [I later wrote this, because I've compartmentalised my paid work identity from my personal identity - the ego is the bridge too, mediating the outside world with the internal one], but it goes too far and monopolises places. It'll be cathartic to criticise certain figures as evil, but in doing so, one is able to criticise evil from the place of being good, even though no one is perfect.