{"id":2890,"date":"2015-04-23T00:25:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2020-04-15T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:06:52","slug":"revolutionaries-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=2890","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Invisible: Revolutionaries \u2014 Post Mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The revolution was controversial. ‘Twas only natural.<\/p>\n

3\/4 of the revolutionaries worked on a very cool thing that we set out to create on day 1 of the assignment. A flag.<\/p>\n

We ended up creating 3 flags, hovering over the ground at various angles. This was our move because a flag is, first and foremost, an emblem that re-contextualizes a topographical space — placing it placing it within the bounds of a nation or ‘platform’ that lies within a mapped system. Landscape itself is subject to interpretation. It’s a notion that embedded in national history as manifest destiny. Land belongs to this American lifestyle. And this was our land, so the flag was the end result of our revolution.<\/p>\n

We set out to go\u00a0beyond what a flag does. A flag is merely an isolated, unavailable, emblematic totem, and we brought three flags into a realm of physical accessibility.<\/p>\n

Aesthetically, the\u00a0motion of the flags in sequence provokes an sense of simultaneous construction and destruction of that mapping system placing the flags in conversation with the pre-existing ecosystem that the alien flag is placed in. The white material refers to surrender. Our revolution was ironic, in this sense. We surrendered, so to speak, our pre-conceived notions of territory and ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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