The Current Affair: Charts for the Itinerant Artworker
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Amber Frid-Jimenez,
Burak Arikan,
Joe Dahmen
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The Current Affair investigates the space of urban engagement from the point of view of the itinerant artworker. This project draws attention to the threads that tie these workers together into a loose alternative network existing in parallel or outside of of larger governing structures. The Current Affair explores the dynamics of existing power structures by positioning the roaming individual, as agents of change in a mobile ad-hoc network.
The Current Affair is a research-based artwork that begins as a conversation over the net and results in a series of prints and physical installations around the topic of networks, mobility, and control. The Current Affair turns the nomadic Tehran Biennial into a generator of an artwork through people's participation in a geo-political discourse.
The Current Affair creates a participatory structure for "Pipeline Tourism", engaging the territory around the gas and oil pipelines prevalent in the regions through which the Tehran Biennial will travel. Oil and gas pipelines transverse national borders with an ease, facilitating the transport of millions of gallons of crude oil and natural gas across borders that populations are often prevented from crossing. Juxtaposing international infrastructure with international tourism, The Current Affair asks how global interdependence on oil might compare the to the communities through which such liquidity flows.