èr-ling-ling-bā!
Tags: China | Olympics | art | identity | nationalism | peace | race+ethnicity | spectacle | television
The reference is from George Lucas' epic 1971 movie, THX 1138, in which a state-controlled intensification of communication processes manages every facet of daily life in a futuristic society, regulating the flux of all human subjects in work, leisure and love.
Though the Department exists in homage to Lucas’ vision, our consideration of biological flow seeks to reinvigorate the agency of the (in)human subject in its negotiations with economic and political structures both material and immaterial.
www.departmentofbiologicalflow.net
August 21st, 2008
[...] “èr-ling-ling-b?!", Sportsbabel, 8 August 2008 (English) [...]
August 28th, 2009
[...] spaces. But it also bears mention that the specific example of the fireworks which punctuated the lighting of the Olympic Torch suggested an opening to complement the closing or tangential touching of the two spatial layers. [...]