The Party Studio
Nicole Huber [Spring 2018]
Special Thanks to Michelle Hook, Amelia Jarvinen and Gregory Woolston for their participation and support.
If imagination is the birth of how we imagine ourselves and our futures, the way we appropriate space, how is imagination shared? How can imagination empower people to become more than they can envision in the present? Guy Debord describes the modern condition as being a Society of the Spectacle. This spectacle describes an exchange of imagery that mediates the way we interact with one another socially. This is a marxist critique of the way we consume and produce our identities in a capitalist society. The exchange of imagery Debord is discussing is exactly how we place ourselves relative to others, how we construct the identities we perform daily. Imagery and representation are critical to how we see ourselves and each other, and perhaps how we are able to transgress beyond the set of imagery the dominant perspective allows us to pursue.
If some of that imagery became shared, interchangeable in a collective of people who wanted to become more, imagine themselves as infinite identities, what could we become? How might we live if we live to become new?
