`In 2016 we realised something- that each of us has become more important than ever before, not only to ourselves but broader world`
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`One thing that neurologists by in large agree with, is that the brain`s measurement of the present is somewhere between 2-2.5 seconds. So, anything on either side of that is the past and the future
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and then you realise one day that if you are on a social media feed and then you drag the top to refresh, it takes about the same unit of time `
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`We are waiting for the next frame of the present to be refreshed, this is what we mean by an extreme present `
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Left: A screenshot of the video of curators talk on exhibition Age of You` i have lisened to on Youtube gathering conceptual information
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What i find specifically interesting about this exhibition as a comparison to my practice is that it is based on a book coauthored by the curators and is based on that collaboration between the text and image to depict the inner state of an individual in relation to their outer appearence. It is a collaboration not only between the curators but a much wider community of creatives who were given text and they have responded to that with producing images. It is about that sensitivity in one conveying the meanaing of the other.
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It questions a significance of the individual within the Modern World and i notice here a similar notion expressed by Tuttle in Modern Chakra Guide that the importance and opportunity of an individual to take a stand- an ownership of their own stance, therefore the body and mind increased.
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I found it very powerful in how Shuman Basar in what he said during the talk compared the sense of present to 2.5 seconds that it takes tro refresh the feed on social media. For me that portrays that socail enxiety of wanting that interaction with the World in that immediate future to gain something from outside, not allowing yourself to look inside.