Working in conversation with an excerpt from The Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, I navigate the tension between our world and systems of control. Steryerl is questioning the authoritative structures within the mundane and our allowance to be regulated. Visualizing Steyerl’s excerpt, I construct an interactive experience to envision the surrendering of our world’s frameworks.
“Perhaps the bones refuse to renter the world of relatives, family, and property, the world of name and measure, in which skulls are forced to speak of race and rank instead of love and decomposition. Why should they want to reenter an order that sustained and strengthened itself over their dead bodies? Who had to execute them in the first place to keep the realm of belonging, faith, and knowledge intact? Why should they want to return from the world of naked matter in which they freely mix with the dust of the universe?”
From The Wretched of the Screen Hito Steyerl
