Modes of Suspension

Who told you so?! #1 Truth vs. Government , a set on Flickr.

What are the wins and losses when forms of inner conflict are not allowed to represent themselves within the community that produced them...

Mode of Suspension is exhibited as part of Onomatopee 75: Research project Who told you so?! The first chapter of the year-long program f...

*this text was written in preparation for Who told you so?! First exhibition installation on Truth vs Government, Research Project by  ono...

Conceived as a public moment that takes the form of an exhibition, 24:05:00_Five Minutes Past Midnight leads us through ‘research in progres...

Mode of suspension, not absence or standstill - rather a mode FOR suspension . EXPERIMENT This video essay involves two projections set s...

In 2008, during United States presidential elections, Hillary Clinton characterized the recent reports on Iraq with “suspension of disbelie...

Men dress up and behave like animals, masters serve their slaves, males and females exchange roles and criminal behavior is considered legit...

"I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!" the Queen said. "Two pence a week, and jam every other day."  Alice coul...

Just as during crisis normal social structures can collapse, and social functions and roles break down to the point where behaviours and cus...

Our culture is mainly structured between dichotomist oppositions. In dichotomist model one has A and not A, there is no third. The third is ...

A man from the country seeks the law and wishes to gain entry to the law through a doorway. The doorkeeper tells the man that he cannot go t...

"It is often said that philosophers are concerned with essence , that, confronted with a thing, they ask:"What is it?" But t...

Einstein has said: “Space is nothing in itself; there is no absolute space. It exists merely by way of the bodies and energies contained in ...

That law can be suspended is not a novelty in politics and history. What is novel is that the specter of the suspension of the law becomes a...

Commitments are binding because they rest on natural law; but in emergencies the tie to general natural principles ceases. But to what ex...

The US Patriot Act issued by the U.S Senate in 2001 allows the attorney general to “take into custody” any alien suspected of activities tha...

In a state of liminality, however brief, the past is momentarily suspended and the future has not yet begun. Dislocation of established stru...

The Southeastern Anatolian Project (GAP), Turkey's ambitious, 12-phase hydropower initiative, has been in the works since the late 1960s...

Inspired by Fareed Armaly's ongoing project Shar(e)d Domains “Archaeology begins with the shards. This is the most evident type of r...

In the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, monuments all over the country were being toppled and carted off. A ...

"I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument ...

In 2008 Slavoj Zizek wrote an article for Die Zeit, where he argued that during contemporary tests of international politics, instead of the...

“Government is the right disposition of things arranged so as to lead to a suitable end.”  Guilaumme de la Perriere If we look at what char...

"Zero degrees is the reference point where everything begins… ... and everything ends" (Akram Khan) What is at play is ambivalen...

Notes from: Know-how and No-How: stopgap notes on “method” in visual art as knowledge production by Sarat Maharaj (published in Art and Res...

If the research project was a play, it would look at the modes of suspension by questioning the notions of overlay, synchronicity and the ti...

Laurie Anderson: "I usually watch TV in a rocking chair, and I have noticed as the chair moves, the image bends at the edges. A good so...

... reading Deleuze Cinema II

Quasi-emotions differ from their actual counterparts both in their source (they are generated by beliefs about what is fictionally rather th...

A visually sumptuous film of thirty minutes, Giardini comprises two projections set side-by-side, which steadily gather a series of evocativ...

Parallel universes, also known as meta-universes or multiverses, are a group of theoretical twin universes that coexist at the same time as ...

Liminality, as developed by van Gennep (1960), refers to "in-between situations and conditions that are characterised by the dislocatio...