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Alienated Gaze: Folding Life, Folding Fields疏离的凝视:折叠的场域,折叠的生存
Spanning a decade (2012–2021), this body of work condenses Damao’s profound insight into the human condition. Interweaving performance, installation, and painting, the artist constructs a spatial topology of “Landlessness,” investigating how modern individuals confront abandonment, alienation, and the fixity of the gaze within the folding and interaction of space. …
Algorithmic Determinism: The Subject Banished Within Folds of the Wilderness — Homecoming算法确定性:主体在荒野褶皱中被放逐——归乡
Beneath the shadow of Algorithmic Determinism, genuine “happening” has degenerated into a luxurious privilege.
Here, “banishment” is no longer a passive punishment, but an active refusal of systemic domestication and the judgment of collective mediocrity. Nestled within the folds of the wilderness, the subject resembles a blind wanderer returning home in the dark—bearing dark eyes born of the night.
Merging the observation of the present and the non-present observer into one——homecoming.
在算法确定性(Algorithmic Determinism)的笼罩下,真正的“偶发”演变为一种奢侈的特权。“放逐”不再是被动的惩罚,而是主体主动拒绝被系统驯化和平庸审判的抗争。在荒野的褶皱中栖息,如同夜晚回家的盲人,黑夜里的黑色眼睛。将观察者在场和不在场的观察,合二为一————回家。 …
【N/N*】I met an angel at a crossroads in the woods, and I saw her circling around me, maybe I was circling her. At least I had a hard time telling, because she was too bright for me to take my eyes off her.
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