A great sense of isolation is stored inside Gregor Scheneider’s home. A building that the artist transformed into a maze of isolated, dangerous spaces. He transformed his home into his mind, he transformed his mind into his home. Both are obsessive sites that developed a sort of autistic architecture. Autism is the way isolation is transformed into a fire-wall, a safety curtain of a society ruled by language. More and more people decided to belong to the culture of isolation. Autistic technology.
The iPod is the ultimate instrument of isolation. The more we are able to connect with other people without the need to see them, to talk with them, the more the culture of isolation becomes the dominant state of our civilisation. Today, in a city like New York it is possible to self-imprison ourselves. Food, information, drugs can be delivered in front of our doors, making the contact with outside world useless. We can die without having seen a person for years. We can build architectural burkas where it will be to hide our social and gender identity. Why surrounded by the noises and the blabbering of other people spending half of their lives on cell phones, we mutated into a different kind of human being.
By now, we switch on the isolation button automatically. The more the others share their lives with us, the more their lives become meaningless to us.
Music is the new silence. Words are the new feelings. Loneliness is the new screaming crowd that surrounds us. Like stones, we learn the impossibility to kiss another stone. Like stones, we wait for someone, we wait for someone to throw us againts the glasswalls of our isolation. Like stones, we imagine being islands, faraway in the middle of the ocean.
By. Francesco Bonami. (ON ISOLATION)
Wanna know why I think "Up!" the movie is so great? because it unlocks the world outside you.
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