Like History, Like Geography
Like History, Like Geography
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From zones to interzones
From action to interaction
From face to face to interface
From interface to interact
From interact to interrupt
To interrupt, to break the flow, to create a diversion, to make a space inaccessible, to build walls and dig ditches, to instigate boundary disputes, to incite conflict, to escalate. An escalator over the hill, transit to a different space, another place, unmarked territory, a space beyond geography (can it be?), a space without history (has it been?) an impossible conjecture, a conjunction of the not yet and the not even likely. Utopian dreams, ice sculptures in the desert sun, keys to locked doors in corridors of power. As if we never knew, as if we didn’t know what territories had been occupied, annexed, reconfigured. As has been said, more or less, all images owe more to other images than they do to direct observation. And THAT is a direct observation. So we direct our observation to the object of fascination as it fades in and out of focus, jumps from frame to frame, vanishes in the gaps between established categories, a categorical denial of its ever having been there, this ghost, this trace, this memory, this cipher. This envoy from the colonies of the disappeared.