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(Trial 1 was structured as a two-phase designed situation. In Phase 1, participants were supposed to follow a silent PDF instruction sequence. They were supposed to take a number, allowing the number to replace their name, then divide into Watchers and Collaborators. The Collaborators were supposed to choose a leader, who would then exclude someone, decide who could pass.) |
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This project investigates colonialism not only as a series of historical events, but as part of a larger structure of power that repeats through different times, locations, and political systems. The first trial explored this through a staged installation apparatus that echoed the logic of security checkpoints, bodily inspection, and controlled passage. | This project investigates '''colonialism''' not only as a '''series of historical events''', but as part of a '''larger structure of power''' that repeats through different times, locations, and political systems. Colonization is a structure that survives by changing who operates it. The oppressor is replaced; '''the operation continues.''' | ||
The first trial explored this through a staged installation apparatus that echoed the logic of security checkpoints, bodily inspection, and controlled passage. | |||
Participants were not asked to act as fictional characters. Instead, they followed a sequence of instructions that assigned them positions within a system: numbered bodies, Watchers, Collaborators, Leaders, Enforcers, and those allowed or denied passage. The work examines how people can become complicit in structures they did not create, and how a system can change its actors while keeping the same rules. | Participants were not asked to act as fictional characters. Instead, they followed a sequence of instructions that assigned them positions within a system: numbered bodies, Watchers, Collaborators, Leaders, Enforcers, and those allowed or denied passage. The work examines how people can become complicit in structures they did not create, and how a system can change its actors while keeping the same rules. | ||