dmitry strakovsky
Location: United States
Categories

Photography, Video

Website

http://www.shiftingplanes.org

Wooloo Url

http://www.wooloo.org/dima

About

Throughout the human history we went forth to map our world: roads and rivers which let us travel, mountains and oceans which we needed to cross, minerals and metals which made us wealthy. We invented a matrix of latitudes and longitudes to house our knowledge, our time, ourselves. We went on to map and classify the largest galaxies and the smallest parts of an atom, traveling far beyond the capabilities of our own bodies. Bodies which became a part of a greater continuum of billions upon billions of sub-atomic particles, spanning the universe, destroying the borders between the air we breathe and our lungs, the ground we stand on and our feet. Within this continuum each border we create becomes a choice in how we see our world. For example, geopolitical map might create a border between two countries but a map of the water resources might place the two areas as a part of the same lake system, dependent on the same water supply. The flexibility of view points that is afforded by different methods of data organization and their impact on us, is the primary focus of my artistic investigation.Instead of the lines of longitude and latitude, I choose multiple coordinate axis drawn from a variety of fields (political, social, technological, religious and many more) to construct the boundaries around the subjects of my work. This allows me to present each subject as a system of choices, which I often push to the limits of its cohesion. It is at this limit that both my own mapping process and that of the viewers, are highlighted. This becomes an entry point into a conversation on how we see our world: were do we locate the borderlines that define our perceptions and when, if at all, do we choose to change their placement.

Exhibitions

Top 10 Asian Brands...

United States

Video

137

Pretend.play

United States

Photography

138

Surface.tension. Ser...

United States

 

134
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