ongoing research
And the many occurances/states/repeatedly finding oneself of being on edge. edge of borders (decriminalisation). edge of land. edge of water. edge of wet and dry. edge of time past and time to come.
"the globe shrinks for those who own it; for the displaced or the dispossessed, the migrant or the refugee, no distance is more awesome than the few feet across borders or frontiers." Today's site oriented practices inherit the task of demarcating the relational specificity that can hold in tension the distant poles of spatial experiences described by Bhabha. This means addressing the differences of adjacencies and distances between one thing, one person, one place, one thought, one fragment next to another, rather than invoking equivalencies via one thing after another. Only those cultural practices that have this relational sensibility can turn local encounters into long-term commitments and transform passing intimacies into indelible, unretractable social marks—so that the sequence of sites that we inhibit in our life's traversal does not become genericized into an undifferentiated serialization, one place after another."
Notes on Site Specificity, Miwon Kwon
