relation
relationality
relevance
relatability
relativity
The word 'relation' is a core in deciding about the roles I would like to occupy in the future as an artist.
VALUE
USE
RELEVANCE
COMMONS
KNOWLEDGE
SHARING
CARE
role of an artist as a feminist observer
role of an artist as an older sister
"We form constellations. Our bodies are never isolated, are always enmeshed in shifting patterns of relations.
Scattered across space our selves form patterns, trace connections ethical but unseen. They give us consistency and form outside of our solitude. When we make our connections material our constellations take shape, become tactile, make worlds."
I use the metaphor of the constellation developed by the anonymous theoreticians group - Friendship as a Form of Life, cited by Jackie Wang to visualize the way of thinking about social relationships as something which helps us to challenge the feeling of alienation.
The scale is shifting...
How many of us does it take to talk about relevance to society?
LOCAL
NATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL
While creating my roles I was thinking a lot about movement and connections between local, national and international contexts. The question of scale is always present and is constantly shifting - from personal to broad context.
contribution to
contemporary
society
I am using the role of an artist as a feminist observer and an older sister as a ground-making roles for understanding my perspective and practice political change.
Both roles support each other and give me the skills to work in a broader context. They have the potential to generate a lot of subroles.
