While the central theme of Brotherhood
revolves around the dilemma of male identity, it could
also be understood as arising from the general compulsion
of mankind - to engage itself in a never ceasing attempt
to reorganize nature itself. Consequently, this leads
to conditions of polarization and antagonism in various
social and philosophical stratifications. Foremost,
it supports the male justification of warfare as an
accepted and integral part of human evolution. Repeatedly
it banishes all concepts of human utopia from its practices
and in exchange, it offers male sexuality and its perilous
values, most explicitly in form of treats, posturing
and eventually in the conduct of war. The Brotherhood
does not argue for a reformist agenda or in a defense
of male strategy. It stands sympathetically on his side,
but it cannot resist an ironic glance at his clearly
self-destructive destiny.
Project Brotherhood is an assembly
of six individual media constructions of various sizes.
They are designed to act in a mutually coordinated manner
or stand alone as individual exhibits. In majority,
they are constructed as a series of tables representing
the core with its instrumentation able to produce, compose
and display varied acoustic and visual structures, surrounded
by an exoskeletal support, carrying media (projectors,
speakers, screens, lights, sensors). These clusters
of technology exhibit a certain volume of behavior through
digital programs or in reaction to a set of sensors
associated with each Table.
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